The Book of My Life

Girolamo Cardano; Jean Stoner (Translator); Anthony Grafton (Introduction by)

A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My L...