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  • Even in Mathematics, Cardan is not always wholly intelligible if Cocker is; although we had to wait for Gauss and Bolyai for real transcendentalism.

    What Is A Canadian Citizen? 1929

  • The terms Cardan used in describing this hostile movement against him, [224] rouse a suspicion that there may have been some ground for the assertion of his adversaries; but he declares that, at any rate, he had a good many pupils from the beginning of the session up to the time of Lent.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • In Germany Houdini purchased sets of pasteboards, properly known as a Cardan grille.

    The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

  • In Germany Houdini purchased sets of pasteboards, properly known as a Cardan grille.

    The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

  • In 1556 Finck spoke of Gombert as still living, but both Cardan (1561) and the diplomat Guicciardini (Descrittione, 1565) indicated that he was already dead.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Cardan de rerum var.l. 15, c. 84, mentioneth a woman, that still supposed she heard the devil call her, and speaking to her, she was a painter's wife in Milan: and many such illusions and voices, which proceed most part from a corrupt imagination.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • One professeth ([3956] Cardan well notes) for a thousand crowns, but he deserves not ten, when as he that deserves

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cowards most part et ad inferendam injuriam timidissimi, saith Cardan, lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A citizen of ours, saith [3852] Cardan, was sixty years of age, and had never been forth of the walls of the city of Milan; the prince hearing of it, commanded him not to stir out: being now forbidden that which all his life he had neglected, he earnestly desired, and being denied, dolore confectus mortem, obiit, he died for grief.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Another (saith [1619] Cardan out of Aristotle), fell down dead (which is familiar to women at any ghastly sight), seeing but a man hanged.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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