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<p> [[Italian]] physician and mathematician, born at Pavia; was far-famed as a physician; studied and wrote on all manner of known subjects, made discoveries in algebra, believed in astrology, left a candid account of himself entitled "De Vita Propria"; was the author of "Cardan's Formula" a formula for the solution of cubic equations; he is said to have starved him self to death so as to fulfil a prophecy he had made as to the term of his life (1501-1576). </p> | <p> [[Italian]] physician and mathematician, born at Pavia; was far-famed as a physician; studied and wrote on all manner of known subjects, made discoveries in algebra, believed in astrology, left a candid account of himself entitled "De Vita Propria"; was the author of "Cardan's Formula" a formula for the solution of cubic equations; he is said to have starved him self to death so as to fulfil a prophecy he had made as to the term of his life (1501-1576). </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_70146"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/cardan,+jerome Jerome Cardan from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_70146"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/cardan,+jerome Jerome Cardan from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:03, 15 October 2021
Jerome Cardan [1]
Italian physician and mathematician, born at Pavia; was far-famed as a physician; studied and wrote on all manner of known subjects, made discoveries in algebra, believed in astrology, left a candid account of himself entitled "De Vita Propria"; was the author of "Cardan's Formula" a formula for the solution of cubic equations; he is said to have starved him self to death so as to fulfil a prophecy he had made as to the term of his life (1501-1576).
