The Book of My Life - De Vita Propria Liber by Jerome Cardan tr from the Latin by Jean Stoner (1930).pdf

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JEROME CARDAN
THE BOOK OF MY LIFE
(De Vita Propria Liber)
BY
JEROME CARDAN
TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY
JEAN STONER
THE BOOK OF MY LIFE, COPYRIGHT,
1930,
BY E. P. DUTTON
&
CO., INC.
::
PRINTED
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
IN U. S. A.
NEW
YORK
E. P. DUTTON
&
CO., INC.
To
MR. WALDO H. DUNN OF THE COLLEGE OF
WOOSTER, TO MR. G. L. HENDRICKSON OF
YALE, TO MISS LUCILE RAND, MY ASSOCIATE
AT THE DALTON SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK
CITY, AND ESPECIALLY TO MY SISTER, MISS
LEAH STONER, ALSO OF THE FACULTY AT THE
DALTON SCHOOLS, I WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE
MY INDEBTEDNESS FOR THE HELP AND EN-
COURAGEMENT THEY GAVE ME IN PREPARING
THIS TRANSLATION
JEAN STONER
NEW YORK, OCTOBER
1929.
INTRODUCTION
At Pavia in ISOI the celebrated Milanese physician, Giro-
lamo Cardano, was born. Benvenuto Cellini, the Floren-
tine, was scarcely a year his senior. In the lusty society of
sixteenth-century Italy both men lived vigorously, Cardano
for seventy-five years, Cellini seventy-one; both men were
widely known to their contemporaries to whom they ren-
dered notable services in the arts and sciences; both, yield-
ing to the autobiographical impulse, have left us vivid,
intimate, and valuable records of their lives and times.
While the Florentine has become a thoroughly familiar
figure in the world of letters, and his autobiography as
popular as a novel, to the memory of Jerome Cardan, as the
Milanese is known in English, time has not been so gener-
0us. Yet if no considerable interest in Card an has survived,
at least every generation has raised some slight literary
memorial to his name; historians of mathematics, of
esoteric philosophy and of the autobiography as a form
have not been able to overlook him, for to these fields he
made significant contributions. Nor has he lacked biog-
raphers, especially among English men of letters. Than
The Life of Girolamo Cardano of Milan, Physician,
by
Henry Morley, I8S4,'* certainly few more engaging bio-
graphical writings have been made. Morley's study is
based upon the facts of Card an's life as the physician left
them generously scattered throughout all his books; for
the
Vita,
says Morley, "is no autobiography, but rather a
·2
vols. Chapman
&
Hall, London, 1854.
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