Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1590170164
ISBN-13
9781590170168
Edition
Main
Publisher
New York Review Books
Imprint
NYRB Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2002
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
334 grams
Dimensions
20.70 x 12.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Autobiography: historical, political & militaryHistory of science
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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 Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct. Whether discussing his sex life or his diet, the plots of academic rivals or meetings with supernatural beings, or his deep sorrow when his beloved son was executed for murder, Cardano displays the same unbounded curiosity that made him a scientific pioneer. At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae, and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait—a book to set beside Montaigne''s Essays and Benvenuto Cellini''s Autobiography.
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