Cardan

Even in Mathematics, Cardan is not always wholly intelligible if Cocker is; although we had to wait for Gauss and Bolyai for real transcendentalism.

What Is A Canadian Citizen? 1929

The terms Cardan used in describing this hostile movement against him, [224] rouse a suspicion that there may have been some ground for the assertion of his adversaries; but he declares that, at any rate, he had a good many pupils from the beginning of the session up to the time of Lent.

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

In Germany Houdini purchased sets of pasteboards, properly known as a Cardan grille.

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

In Germany Houdini purchased sets of pasteboards, properly known as a Cardan grille.

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

In 1556 Finck spoke of Gombert as still living, but both Cardan (1561) and the diplomat Guicciardini (Descrittione, 1565) indicated that he was already dead.

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Cardan de rerum var.l. 15, c. 84, mentioneth a woman, that still supposed she heard the devil call her, and speaking to her, she was a painter's wife in Milan: and many such illusions and voices, which proceed most part from a corrupt imagination.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

One professeth ([3956] Cardan well notes) for a thousand crowns, but he deserves not ten, when as he that deserves

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Cowards most part et ad inferendam injuriam timidissimi, saith Cardan, lib.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

A citizen of ours, saith [3852] Cardan, was sixty years of age, and had never been forth of the walls of the city of Milan; the prince hearing of it, commanded him not to stir out: being now forbidden that which all his life he had neglected, he earnestly desired, and being denied, dolore confectus mortem, obiit, he died for grief.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Another (saith [1619] Cardan out of Aristotle), fell down dead (which is familiar to women at any ghastly sight), seeing but a man hanged.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007