CARDANO, GERONIMO

jārôˈnēmō kärdäˈnō, 1501–76, Italian physician and mathematician. His works on arithmetic and algebra established his reputation. Barred from official status as a physician because of his illegitimate birth, he practiced as a medical astrologer. His major work, De subtilitate rerum (1550), on natural history, is perceptive and implies a grasp of evolutionary principles. His book on games of chance represents the first organized theory of probability. Cardano described a tactile system similar to Braille for teaching the blind and thought it possible to teach the deaf by signs.

See his The Book of my Life (1643, tr. 1930); studies by O. Ore (with a tr. of Cardano's Book of Games of Chance, 1965) and A. Wykes (1969).

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books on: Cardano Geronimo  - 24 results

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Education and the Handicapped, 1760-1960
Book by D. G. Pritchard; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963
Subjects: Handicapped Children--Education--History
...196 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 169 Canada, open-air schools in, 171 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 91 Cardano, Geronimo, 4 Cardiff School Board, 73 n., 80 Cardwell, Edward, 66
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Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking
Book by Leonard Zusne, Warren H. Jones; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989
Subjects: Magical Thinking, Occultism--Psychological Aspects, Parapsychology--Psychological Aspects, Supernatural--Psychological Aspects
...199 Bufotenin, 270 Buguet, Jean, 213 Bureau des Constatations, 46 Burt, C., 171 C Caldwell, Taylor, 144 Cardano, Geronimo, 6 Cards, in parapsychological research, 154 Cargo cults, 247 Carpenter, William, 105 Carrington, Whatley...
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The Myth of the Eternal Return
Book by Mircea Eliade; Pantheon Books, 1954
Subjects: History (Theology), Myth, Religion
...Cancer, 8 , 87 Capricorn, 87 Caraman, Petru, 19 , 43 Carcopino, Jerome, 121 n , 123 , 133 , 134 n , 135 n Cardano, Geronimo, 145 carnivals, 67 , 68 -69 catastrophes: cyclical, 87 -88, 121 - 28, 132 -37; and Hebrews, 102 -4...
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Eugenical Sterilization: A Reorientation of the Problem
Book by American Neurological Association; Macmillan Co., 1936
Subjects: Eugenics, Insanity, Sterilization, Eugenic
...epilepsy and narcolepsy. Byron, Lord George Gordon 1778-1824 : Mother hysteric. Mothers father died by suicide. Cardano, Geronimo 1501-1576 : Physician and mathematician, psychopathic personality with hysteric, paranoic, and compulsive neurotic...
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Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century
Book by Jurgen Helm, Annette Winkelmann; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Church History--16th Century--Congresses, Judaism--History--Medieval And Early Modern Period, 425-1789--Congresses, Religion And Science--History--16th Century--Congresses
...1295-c.1358) 71 Campanella, Tommaso (1568-1639) 74,102 Canepario, Pietro Maria (fl. 1619) 112 Cardano, Geronimo (1501-1576), also Cardan, Cardanus 88, 112 Cattenius, Otto (fl. 1610) 24 f. Cicero (106-43 BCE...
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newspaper articles on: Cardano Geronimo  - 4 results

 
 
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Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (G)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 2, 2007
...ORIBELLO 7437 GERONIMO, GLAIZA LAJOM 7438 GERONIMO, NARGELYN RAPANA 7439 GERPACIO, EMILIANO...PONTIGA 7496 GIRON, RAIZA BLANQUITA GERONIMO 7497 GIRONELLA, JOB PACIO 7498 GITANA...MELANIE VENZON 7854 GUTIERREZ, REYNA CARDANO 7855 GUTIERREZ, SABRINA BIANCA LAZCANOTEGUI...
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Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (G)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 6, 2007
...ORIBELLO 7437 GERONIMO, GLAIZA LAJOM 7438 GERONIMO, NARGELYN RAPANA 7439 GERPACIO, EMILIANO...PONTIGA 7496 GIRON, RAIZA BLANQUITA GERONIMO 7497 GIRONELLA, JOB PACIO 7498 GITANA...MELANIE VENZON 7854 GUTIERREZ, REYNA CARDANO 7855 GUTIERREZ, SABRINA BIANCA LAZCANOTEGUI...
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Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (G)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 1, 2007
...ORIBELLO 7437 GERONIMO, GLAIZA LAJOM 7438 GERONIMO, NARGELYN RAPANA 7439 GERPACIO, EMILIANO...PONTIGA 7496 GIRON, RAIZA BLANQUITA GERONIMO 7497 GIRONELLA, JOB PACIO 7498 GITANA...MELANIE VENZON 7854 GUTIERREZ, REYNA CARDANO 7855 GUTIERREZ, SABRINA BIANCA LAZCANOTEGUI...
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Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (G)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 4, 2007
...ORIBELLO 7437 GERONIMO, GLAIZA LAJOM 7438 GERONIMO, NARGELYN RAPANA 7439 GERPACIO, EMILIANO...PONTIGA 7496 GIRON, RAIZA BLANQUITA GERONIMO 7497 GIRONELLA, JOB PACIO 7498 GITANA...MELANIE VENZON 7854 GUTIERREZ, REYNA CARDANO 7855 GUTIERREZ, SABRINA BIANCA LAZCANOTEGUI...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cardano Geronimo  - 3 results

 
 
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Cardano, Geronimo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CARDANO, GERONIMO jaro nemo karda no, 1501 76, Italian physician and mathematician...games of chance represents the first organized theory of probability. Cardano described a tactile system similar to Braille for teaching the blind...
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Tartaglia, NiccolÒ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...artillery, he recorded his results in Della nova scientia (1537). He developed a solution for cubic equations that Geronimo Cardano (with his pupil Ludovico Ferrari) completed and published in his Ars magna (1545), thereby precipitating a bitter...
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Mathematics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...books widely available. By the end of the 16th cent. advances had been made in algebra by Niccolo Tartaglia and Geronimo Cardano , in trigonometry by Francois Viete , and in such areas of applied mathematics as mapmaking by Mercator and others...


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