Libelli quinq(ue). I. De supplemento Almanach. II. De Restitutione ...

Author: Cardano, Gerolamo

Publisher: Petreius, Johannes

Published: Nürnberg

Publishing year: 1547

Cardano, Gerolamo (1501-1576). "Libelli quinq(ue) ... I. De supplemento Almanach. II. De Restitutione temporu(m) & otuum coelestium. III. De Iudiciis genituraru(m). IIII. De Revolutionibus. V. De exemplis centum geniturarum. ... Eiusdem ... Aphorismorum Astronomicorum Segmenta VII". Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1547. 1st edition. Small 4to (21:16,5 cm). (4), 309, (1) leaves. With a woodcut portrait of Cardano on verso of titlepage, many woodcut horoscopes of numerous outstanding personalities (including Cicero, Dürer, Erasmus, Henry VIII, Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor, Luther, Petrarca, Savonarola and Vesalius) in text and printer's mark at the end. Full parchment binding from about the middle of the 17th century with a bookplate on the front pastedown "Biblioteca Riccardi in Modena".

Gerolamo Cardano (also Girolamo or Geronimo; French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501 in Pavia - 21 September 1576 in Rome) was an Italian Polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance, and was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binominal coefficients and the binominal theorem in the Western world. - Pietro Riccardi (1828, Modena - 1898, Modena) was an Italian mathematician and historian of mathematics. His Italian mathematical library (1870-91) contains accurate information on over 8000 Italian mathematical works up to the entire 18th century.

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