INDEX

Adda, battle, 7 Alberio, Antonio, 4 Alciati, Cardinal, 212, 233 Algebra, 65, 73, 98, 235 Appearance of Cardan, 19 Apuleius, 231, 256, 264 Archinto, Filippo, 40, 41, 46, 54 Aristotle, 16, 105, 108, 224, 240, 256, 288 Arithmetic, 54, 61, 71, 91, 290 Astrology, 5, 54, 259 Avicenna, 224, 268 Bandarini, Altobello, 35-38, 163 Bandarini, Lucia (Cardan's wife), 35, 37, 39, 40, 57, 67, 163 Bayle, 1, 154, 245 Bologna, 193, 195, 201-205, 207, 212, 220, 224 Borgo, Fra Luca da, 76, 92, 96, 97 Borromeo, Carlo, 193, 194, 202, 210, 233 Borromeo, Count, 55, 259 Browne, Sir T., 56, 154, 210, 267 Brissac, Marquis, 54, 122, 131 Camutio, 170, 171, 256, 264 Cantone, Otto, 9, 11 Cardano, Aldo, 164, 165, 170, 172, 203, 212, 243 Cardano, Fazio, 1, 2, 10, 15, 22, 68, 69, 162, 238, 245, 267 Cardano, Gasparo, 103, 130, 132 Cardano, Gian Battista, 40, 102, 103, 164-180, 199, 261 Cardano, Niccolo, 21 Cassanate, G., 117-122, 126, 225, 266 Cavenago, Ambrogio, 58, 59, 60, 266 Cheke, Sir J., 139, 258 Chiara (Cardan's daughter), 148, 213 Chiromancy, 110 Cicero, 259, 290-291, 294 Colla, Giovanni, 73, 76, 81, 83, 85, 93, 97 Consolatione, De, 57, 62, 117, 164, 288 Croce, Francesco della, 47, 61 Croce, Luca della, 58-60, 266 D'Avalos, Alfonso, 57, 61, 63, 84, 85, 88, 89 Deaf mutes, 274 Demons, 115, 147, 155, 229 Denmark, King of, 100, 144, 282 Diet, Cardan's, 251: for the Archbishop of St. Andrews, 128 Diseases, Cardan's, 5, 7, 31, 33, 251 Doctorate of Padua, 23, 30 Dreams, Cardan's, 20, 34, 48, 104, 235 Edinburgh, 113, 125, 126 Edward VI., 132-139, 282 English, the, 141 Erasmus, 148, 163, 226, 295 Familiar spirit of Cardan, 227, 229, 258 Familiar spirit of Fazio Cardano, 12, 227 Ferrari, Ludovico, 54, 73, 94-96, 98, 211 Ferreo, Scipio, 54, 73, 76, 77, 97 Fioravanti, 189, 190, 192, 197 Fiore Antonio, 73, 76, 77, 79, 80, 82, 97 Gaddi, Franc., 47 Galen, 55, 170, 239, 240, 260-268, 270-273 Gallarate, 1, 39, 102, 258 Gambling, 22, 27, 28, 32, 42, 62, 163 Geniturarum Exempla, 4, 136 Geometry, 70 Glanvil, Jos., 279-281 Greek, study of, 232, 288 Hamilton, James, Earl of Arran, 120, 121, 124 Hippocrates, 59, 223, 255, 260, 268, 270-273, 296 Horace, 287, 289 Horoscope of Cardan, 5, 248 Horoscope of Aldo Cardano, 165 Horoscope of Cheke, 258 Horoscope of Christ, 55, 221, 257, 285, 286 Horoscope of Edward VI., 133, 259 Horoscope of Gian Battista Cardano, 258 Horoscope of Ranconet, 259 Horoscope of the Archbishop of St. Andrews, 130, 258 Immortalitate Animorum, De, 61, 284 Imprisonment of Cardan, 219, 231 Index, Congregation of the, 197 Juan Antonio, 79, 81-83 Lanza, Donato, 58, 257 Latin, study of, 12, 279, 282 Lawsuits, 31, 48, 267, 275 Leonardo Pisano, 74-76, 97 Libris Propriis, De, 160, 213, 235 Lyons, 121 Mahomet the Algebraist, 74 Mahomet Ben Musa, 75, 98 Margarita, 6, 21, 163, 249 Medicine, state of, 267 Micheria Chiara (Cardan's mother), 1, 3, 27, 39, 41, 42, 46, 292 Milan, College of, 31, 38, 41, 47, 52, 57, 61, 62, 145, 276 Moroni, Cardinal, 65, 210, 217-220 Music, 163, 235, 256 Naudé, Gabriel, 96, 155, 156, 165, 246-249, 253, 254, 256, 264, 290 Niger, Josephus, 228, 279 Northumberland, Duke of, 133, 136, 138, 139 Orontius, 123 Osiander, A., 72 Paciolus, Luca, 74 Padua, University, 23-30 Paracelsus, 163, 269 Paris, 119, 121 Parker, Dr. S., 282, 283 Pavia, University, 18, 22, 53, 63, 65, 100, 116, 170, 183, 195, 269 Paul III., Pope, 54, 65, 100 Peckham, John, 16, 236 Petreius, 65 Petrus, 158, 159 Pharnelius [Fernel], 123, 260 Phthisis, cure of, 118, 256 Pius IV., 193, 197, 220, 221, 233 Pius V., 220-223, 225, 282 Plat Lectureship, 46, 64, 66, 70 Porro, Branda, 170, 171, 204, 256, 264 Portents, 38, 40, 64, 161, 166, 173, 175, 184, 205-207, 216, 219, 231, 238, 278 Precepts for Children, 164, 276 Ptolemæi de Astrorum Judiciis, 147, 154, 159, 235, 256, 285 Ranconet, A., 123, 130, 132, 145, 259 Ranke, Von, 220, 223 Rectorship at Padua, 23, 26-28 Rigone, 176, 182 Rome, 224, 233, 242 Rosso, Galeazzo, 14, 106 Sacco, 10, 30, 32, 67, 110, 258, 267 Sacco, Bartolomeo, 172, 174, 176 Saint Andrews, Abp. of, 112, 113, 118-122, 124, 126, 131, 146-148, 257, 265, 257 Sapientia, De, 57, 117, 260 Scaliger, J.C., 61, 148-157, 237 254, 284-286 Scot, Reginald, 159, 163, 256, 265 Scotland, 111-116, 141 Scoto, Ottaviano, 51, 147 Scotus, Duns, 113-141 Seroni, Brandonia, 168, 170, 172, 176-180, 231 Seroni, Evangelista, 168, 177, 182 Sessa, Duca di, 175, 182, 199, 200 Sfondrato, Francesco, 58, 59, 61 Shetlands, 113 Socrates, 228, 230 Subtilitate, De, 104-117, 149, 158, 221, 228 Suisset (Swineshead), 113, 141 Sylvestro, Rodolfo, 211, 219, 231, 234 Sylvius, 123 Tartaglia, Niccolo, 73, 75-99, 236 Thuanus [de Thou], 155, 221, 237 244, 278 Tiboldo, G., 265 Troilus and Dominicus, story of, 241, 243 Utilitate, De, 4, 184, 290 Varietate, De, 104-117, 154, 158, 159, 227, 249 Vesalius, 100, 101, 123, 261, 270 Vicomercato, Antonio, 62 Visconti, Ercole, 183, 188, 192 Vita Propria, De, 9, 45, 161, 235, 237, 244, 246, 249, 250, 284, 285, 289 Weir, Johann, 209, 210 William, the English boy, 139-141, 186, 187

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