Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #460655 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-31
• Original language: Italian
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
Girolamo Cardano was a sixteenth-century intellectual celebrity, a doctor, astrologer, and natural philosopher who helped create modern algebra and invented the universal joint. Condemned to house arrest by the Inquisition, Cardano wrote this unvarnished, and entirely unabashed, account of his character and conduct. A wonderfully entertaining picaresque adventure, The Book of My Life also gives a fascinating glimpse into the early modern period, when notions of science and the self now taken for granted were very much unresolved.