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Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 September 1501
- Died
- 21 September 1576, 20 September 1576
- Place of birth
- Pavia
- Place of death
- Rome
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Gerolamo
- Family name
- Cardano
- Father
- Fazio Cardano
- Mother
- Chiara Micheri
- Spouse
- Lucia Banderini
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Occupation
- philosopher, mathematician, astrologer, inventor, engineer, physician, astronomer, naturalist
- Citizenship
- Duchy of Milan
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- attested in
- Mare Magnum (vol. 82)
- birth name
- Hieronimo Cardano
- described by source
- Larousse Encyclopedia online, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5
- educated at
- University of Pavia, University of Padua
- influenced by
- Archimedes
- name
- Hieronymus Cardanus
- name in native language
- Gerolamo Cardano
- notable work
- Ars Magna, De subtilitate rerum, Hieronymi Cardani medici Mediolanensis Contradicentium medicorum liber primus [-secundus], gimbal
- place of burial
- Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
- place of detention
- Bologna
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