Cardanos (1501–1576) distinguished position in the history of science is based on the combination of his unusual encyclopedic knowledge and his creative thinking. His ›Ars magna‹ was a milestone in the history of algebra, the Cardan suspension is one of the mathematician’s basic tools. It is due to him that physics has inventions such as the Cardan shaft and medicine had its first clinical description of typhoid fever. Goethe said of him: »Cardan is one of those people whom posterity will never be able to manage.«
Content:
I. De Rerum Varietate
II. De Subtilitate
Liber I: De Principiis, materia, forma, vacuo, corporum repugnantia, motu naturali & loci
Liber II: De Elementis & eorum motibus & actionib
Liber III: De Cœlo
Liber IV: De Luce & Lumine
Liber V: De Mistione & mistis imperfecte seu metallicis
Liber VI: De Metallis
Liber VII: De Lapidibus
Liber VIII: De Plantis
Liber IX: De Animalibus quæ ex putredine generantur
Liber X: De Perfectis Animalibus
Liber XI: De Hominis necessitate & forma
Liber XII: De Hominis natura & temperamento
Liber XIII: De Sensibus, sensibusque ac voluptate
Liber XIV: De Anima & intellectu
Liber XV: De Inutilibus subtilitatibus
Liber XVI: De Scientiis
Liber XVII: De artibus artificiosisque rebus
Liber XVIII: De Mirabilibus & modo repræsentandi res varias præter fidem
