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    Gerolamo Cardano (Italian: [dʒeˈrɔːlamo karˈdaːno]; also Girolamo or Geronimo; French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21...
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    1545) is an important Latin-language book on algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano. It was first published in 1545 under the title Artis Magnae, Sive de Regulis...
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    (Australian English), propeller shaft (prop shaft), or Cardan shaft (after Girolamo Cardano) is a component for transmitting mechanical power, torque, and rotation...
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    266, 404. Cardano was returning from Edinburgh where he had attended John Hamilton, see H. Morley, Jerome Cardan. The Life of Girolamo Cardano, of Milan...
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  • the first written text on probability. Motivated by Paccioli's work, Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) made further developments in probability theory. His work...
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    to others, Tacitus protests that his writing is true. Girolamo Cardano In 1562, Girolamo Cardano published in Basel his Encomium Neronis, which was one...
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  • Girolamo is an Italian variant of the name Hieronymus. Its English equivalent is Jerome. It may refer to: Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian Renaissance...
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    in Bologna and went to Milan the same year to listen to lectures by Girolamo Cardano, but he soon returned to Prague, where he became a professor of mathematics...
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    mathematicians with strong autobiographical elements. The Book of My Life – Girolamo Cardano A Mathematician's Apology - G.H. Hardy A Mathematician's Miscellany...
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    flow and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. Girolamo Cardano, Blaise Pascal Pierre de Fermat, Von Neumann, Turing, Khinchin, Markov...
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  • Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch artist Hieronymus Cardanus, also known as Girolamo Cardano or Jérôme Cardan, polymath, astrologer, gambler Hieronymus Cock, Flemish...
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    Philosophy of Seneca, 1958. 3. Campbell 1969, p. 11 Available in English as Girolamo Cardano, Nero: an Exemplary Life Inkstone, 2012 Siraisi, Nancy G. (2007). History...
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  •  24–26); Other composition for theatre: La luna capovolta. Sogni di Girolamo Cardano (first performance: Macerata, 2002), Compagne di classe (adapted from...
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    Viribus Quantitatis by Luca Pacioli. The puzzle is again referred to by Girolamo Cardano in the 1550 edition of his book De subtililate. Although the puzzle...
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    (here cited p. 131). Nancy G. Siraisi, The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine Princeton University Press (1997) ISBN 0691011893...
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  • word for lightning (raad) applied to the electric ray. 1550 – Gerolamo Cardano writes about electricity in De Subtilitate distinguishing, perhaps for...
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    1998, 592 strani. OCLC 1080410598. O'Connor and Robertson (2016), "Girolamo Cardano." Nahin, Paul J. An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √−1. Princeton: Princeton...
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  • was used in ancient China.[additional citation(s) needed] In 1550, Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), known in French as Jérôme Cardan, proposed a simple grid...
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  • hearing aids were invented in the 15th century. Italian physician Girolamo Cardano realized that when a rod was placed between someone's teeth and attached...
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    The Philippists studied or were rather inspired by the works of Girolamo Cardano. Cardano was a professor of medicine known in the Republic of Letters for...
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  • Tartaglia, in Italy, independently solve the general cubic equation. 1545 Girolamo Cardano publishes Ars magna -The great art which gives del Ferro's solution...
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  • Cesare Bori Bulgarus Gualtiero Calboli Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume Girolamo Cardano Giosuè Carducci Giovanni Cassini Manuel Chrysoloras Giacomo Ciamician...
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    Tarot and Trente-et-Un; possibly Rams, Mouche and Brandeln as well. Girolamo Cardano also provides invaluable information including the earliest rules of...
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  • detailed information about these things." Roger Ascham – Toxophilus Girolamo Cardano – Ars Magna Bernard Etxepare – Linguae Vasconum Primitiae (first book...
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    was apparently not communicated to other philosophers of the time. Girolamo Cardano (1570) proposed the incorrect solution that the input force is proportional...
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    Companion to Tacitus, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521874601 Girolamo Cardano Neronis Encomium Translated by Angelo Paratico as Nero. An Exemplary...
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    Petreius, 1543 [2] Girolamo Cardano, Artis Magnae sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber I, Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1545 Girolamo Cardano, De subtilitate...
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    of chance, Liber de ludo aleae (On Casting the Die), was written by Girolamo Cardano in the 1560s, but it was not published until 1663.) This book came...
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    Shen, Pearl, Nature's Perfect Gem (Reaktion Books, 2022), pp. 79-88. Girolamo Cardano, De Rerum Varietate (Basel, 1557), Lib. 7 Cap. 37, p. 431 "vidi in...
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  • Battista Gelli Mario Nizzoli Sperone Speroni Pier Angelo Manzolli Girolamo Cardano Moshe Provençal Leon of Modena Alessandro Piccolomini Bernardino Telesio...
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