Cardano´s La science du monde 1645

CARDANO, (GIROLAMO). La science du monde ou la sagesse civile de Cardan. Paris (chez André Soubron) 1645.

4:o. (2), 5-10, (2), (1). 440 (lacks last 8 pages with table of contents). (Lacks engraved portrait and plate).
Contemporary vellum, worn and spotted, loose in the hinges, spine with manuscript title. Partly dampstained.

Girolamo,Cardano (1501 - 1576), Italian polymath, being a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. Often considered to be the greatest mathematician of the Renaissance, Cardano was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science. (Wikipedia)

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