Hieronymus Cardanus: Band 5: Astronomica, Astrologica, Onirocritica

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 temporum & motuum erraticarum restitutione
II. De prouidentia ex anni constitutione
IV. Commentariorum in Ptolemæum de Astrorum iudiciis Libri IV
V. De septem erraticis stellis
VI. De iudiciis Geniturarum
VII. De exemplo centum geniturarum
VIII. Duodecim Geniturarum Liber
IX. De interrogationibus
X. De Reuolutione annorum, mensium & dierum ad dies criticos & ad Electiones
XI. De Supplemento Almanach