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"Quelques mois avant sa mort en 1576, Gerolamo Cardano (notre ‘'Cardan'', né en 1501 à Pavie) se lance dans la rédaction de ce Livre de ma vie, en cinquante-quatre chapitres, dont il n'aura pas le temps de donner une version définitive, pour autant que l'expression ait un sens chez cet éternel insatisfait, toujours prêt à amender, voire à détruire celles de ses œuvres qu'il juge inabouties. En dépit de cela, le De vita propria, ouvrage apologétique où Cardan entend démontrer à l'Inquisition la pureté d'une âme hors d'atteinte des tentations hérétiques, constitue, en Europe, la première véritable autobiographie : l'auteur, à l'origine d'une longue tradition qui culminera peut-être avec Rousseau, y fait profession de sincérité absolue, dans un dévoilement exhaustif de sa personnalité tourmentée. Défile donc ici l'exposé sans complaisance de ses faiblesses et succès, avec, sotto voce, la confidence de ses ambitions et déboires de médecin, de savant et de philosophe, dans une atmosphère étrange marquée de l'irruption récurrente du surnaturel : Cardan vit en effet dans un monde peuplé des ‘'signes'' multiples que lui adresse, sous forme cryptée, une généreuse Providence, et dont il se reproche de n'avoir pas saisi le sens au moment de son drame essentiel, celui de l'exécution de son fils accusé de l'assassinat de son épouse. Cette édition, appuyée pour la première fois sur les quatre manuscrits du livre connus à ce jour, se propose de rendre compte du texte tel que Cardan l'a laissé, et que les éditeurs ont par la suite ‘'corrigé'' et ‘'clarifié'' à leur guise. Elle s'accompagne d'une traduction aussi fidèle que possible à un texte riche mais rugueux, ainsi que d'une présentation et d'une annotation destinées à réintroduire l'œuvre dans l'univers fragile et instable où baigne son singulier auteur."
Scientists --- Intellectual life --- Cardano, Girolamo, --- Cardano, Gerolano (1501-1576). --- Neo-Latin literature --- Cardano, Gerolano
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Transformer l’expérience de la prison, ô combien dure et amère, en une matière littéraire destinée à réjouir le lecteur, tel est le but de ces œuvres burlesques et libertines composées au xviie siècle par deux auteurs italiens de renom : Giambattista Marino et Girolamo Brusoni.-
Authors, Italian --- Prisons in literature. --- Italian literature --- Themes, motives --- Marino, Giambattista, --- Brusoni, Girolamo, --- Themes, motives.
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Reformers --- Savonarola, Girolamo, --- Dominicans --- Florence (Italy) --- Florence (Italy) --- Politics and government --- Church history.
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The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of a formula for the solution of the cubic equation. Niccolò Tartaglia was a talented and ambitious teacher who possessed a secret formula—the key to unlocking a seemingly unsolvable, two-thousand-year-old mathematical problem. He wrote it down in the form of a poem to prevent other mathematicians from stealing it. Gerolamo Cardano was a physician, gifted scholar, and notorious gambler who would not hesitate to use flattery and even trickery to learn Tartaglia's secret.Set against the backdrop of sixteenth-century Italy, The Secret Formula provides new and compelling insights into the peculiarities of Renaissance mathematics while bringing a turbulent and culturally vibrant age to life. It was an era when mathematicians challenged each other in intellectual duels held outdoors before enthusiastic crowds. Success not only enhanced the winner's reputation, but could result in prize money and professional acclaim. After hearing of Tartaglia's spectacular victory in one such contest in Venice, Cardano invited him to Milan, determined to obtain his secret by whatever means necessary. Cardano's intrigues paid off. In 1545, he was the first to publish a general solution of the cubic equation. Tartaglia, eager to take his revenge by establishing his superiority as the most brilliant mathematician of the age, challenged Cardano to the ultimate mathematical duel.A lively and compelling account of genius, betrayal, and all-too-human failings, The Secret Formula reveals the epic rivalry behind one of the fundamental ideas of modern algebra.
Equations --- Algebra --- Mathematics --- History. --- Ars Magna. --- Arturo Sangalli. --- Blaise Pascal. --- Cardano-Tartaglia formula. --- Carl Friedrich Gauss. --- Euler's Pioneering Equation. --- Ian Stewart. --- Isaac Newton. --- Italian Renaissance. --- Joseph-Louis Lagrange. --- Leibniz. --- Lodovico Ferrari. --- Maria Gaetana Agnesi. --- Omar Khayyám. --- Pierre de Fermat. --- Rafael Bombelli. --- Renaissance men. --- Robin Wilson. --- Scipione del Ferro. --- Significant Figures. --- algebra. --- binomial coefficients. --- binomial theorem. --- coefficients. --- imaginary numbers. --- negative numbers. --- roots of the cubic function. --- Tartaglia, Niccolò, --- Cardano, Girolamo, --- Cardano, Girolamo --- Tartaglia, Niccolò --- 1500-1599 --- Tartaglia, Nicolaus --- Fontana, Niccolò --- Tartalea, Niccolò --- Tartaglia, Nicolas --- Tartalea, Nicolo --- Tartaglia, Nicolo --- Tartalea --- Mathematiker --- Rechenmeister --- Übersetzer --- Ingenieur --- Lehrer --- Prof. --- Brescia --- Venedig --- Verona --- 1500-1557 --- Cardano, Geronimo --- Cardano, Hieronimo --- Cardano, Hieronymus --- Cardano --- Cardani, Hieronymus --- Cardanus, Girolamo --- Cardanus, Hieronimus Castellioneus --- Cardanus, Hieronymus Castellioneus --- Cardanus, Hieronimus C. --- Cardanus, Hier. --- Cardanus --- Cardanus, H. --- Cardini, Hieronymus --- Giralmo --- Hieronymus --- Kardano, Dzhirolamo --- Cardano, Gerolamo --- Cardano, Giralmo --- Cardan, Jérôme --- Cardan, Hierosme --- Cardanus, Hieronymus C. --- Cardanus, Hieronymus --- Cardanus, Hierosme --- Castellioneus, Hieronymus --- Geronimo --- Girolamo --- Jérome --- Cardan, Girolamo --- Cardano, Hieronimus --- Jérôme --- Cardan --- Cardan, H. --- Naturwissenschaftler --- Astronom --- Philosoph --- Arzt --- Pavia --- Rom --- Padua --- Mailand --- Bologna --- Arnaldus --- Benvenutus Rambaldi --- Caesius, Georg --- Cardano, Giovanni Battista --- Cigalini, Francesco --- Dasypodius, Konrad --- Frölich, Huldrich --- Majoragio, Marcantonio --- Petrarca, Francesco --- Ursinus, Adam --- 24.09.1501-20.09.1576 --- 24.11.1501-01.09.1575 --- 1501-1576 --- 1501-1575 --- Fontana, Nicolò, --- Tartaglia, Nicholas, --- Tartaglia, Nicolas, --- Tartaglia, Nicolò, --- Tartaia, Nicolò, --- Tartalea, Nicolai, --- Cardan, H., --- Cardan, Jérôme, --- Cardano, Gerolamo, --- Cardano, Hieronimo, --- Cardanus, Hierome, --- Cardanus, Hieronymus, --- Cardanus, Hierosme, --- Kardano, Dzhirolamo, --- Cardan, Jerome --- Cardan, Jerome,
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"This book becomes legible when light plays across a material substance, be it screen or page. Without the light and without the material, there is no book. To read the book, however, you must perceive meaning in the words before you and in the way that they sit relative to other words, words that are on this page or words that you know and have learned from elsewhere. Without this apprehension - which literary theorists call 'textuality' - there is no book. This book before you is about the interplay between the material and the textual.2 Without the two, it would not exist".
Christian literature, Early --- Books and reading --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Jerome, --- Authorship. --- 276 =75 HIERONYMUS --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- 276 =75 HIERONYMUS Griekse patrologie--HIERONYMUS --- 276 =75 HIERONYMUS Patrologie grecque--HIERONYMUS --- Griekse patrologie--HIERONYMUS --- Patrologie grecque--HIERONYMUS --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Gerolamo, --- Gérome, --- Gerónimo, --- Girolamo, --- Heronimos, --- Hieronim, --- Hieronymus, Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, --- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, Stridonensis, --- Ieronim, Stridonskiĭ, --- Iheronimus, --- Jerónimo, --- Jerōnimos, --- Jeronimi, --- Christian literature, Early - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Books and reading - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Hieronymus presb. --- Jerome, - Saint, - -419 or 420 - Authorship. --- Jerome, - Saint, - -419 or 420
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