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Anecdote
Arbitrariness
Arithmetic
Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano)
Astrology
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Autobiography
Boredom
Calculation
Cardinal Mazarin
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Censure
Counter-Reformation
Counting
Criticism
Dark fluid
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Denarius
Earl of Oxford
Elizabethan literature
Embarrassment
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Equanimity
Erudition
Fluxus
Francesco Berni
Galileo Galilei
Game of Dice
Geomancy
Gerolamo Cardano
Horoscope
Ignoramus
Illustration
Isaac Todhunter
Leonardo da Vinci
Lodovico Ferrari
Mathematician
Mercenary
Metoposcopy
Miser
New Thought
Petrarch
Philippic
Physician
Pietro Aretino
Piovano Arlotto
Plagiarism
Practical joke
Probability
Probability theory
Quintilian
Result
Robbery
Scipione del Ferro
Second Letter (Plato)
Seriousness
Sharper
Simon Magus
Soliloquy
Special Period
Suetonius
Superiority (short story)
Symptom
Tartaglia (commedia dell'arte)
Terence
The Duke of Milan
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The New Science
The Other Hand
The Various
Theft
True History
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691607085
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cardano, next to Vesalius the greatest physician of his day, was also a devoted and skilled gambler who played for personal pleasure and profit. His mathematical genius enabled him to devise simple rules of probability for his own benefit and for his gambling contemporaries. These he collected in his Book on Games of Chance and embellished them with essays on the tricks of cheats and kibitzers, as well as on psychological rules of play. In this biography of a stormy Renaissance personality, Cardano's gambling studies are deciphered for the first time, and a translation of the Book on Games of Chance is appended. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
