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Title: The Book of My Life (De Vita Propria Liber): (De Vita Propria Liber (New York Review Books Classics) by Girolamo Cardano, Anthony Grafton, Jean Stoner ISBN: 1-59017-016-4 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Perhaps best for rarefied tastes
Comment: Girolamo Cardano's THE BOOK OF MY LIFE is a very typical entry into the lists of the New York Review of Books Classics: fairly obscure except to Renaissance historians, Cardano was an enormously important Italian mathemetician, scientist, and astrologer who also wrote an account of himself, his nature, and his life. Cardano's experiences in 16th-century Italy are extremely complex and colorful, and he recounts not only his problems with his children and his many enemies, but also his birthsign, his experiments, and his encounters with supernatural beings. The book isn't quite as enthralling as you hope it might be, and in the foreword Anthony Grafton comments on the limitations of this translation (which hearkens back to the 1920s)--given this, you wonder why NYRB didn't commission a new and more faithful translation. The book is intriguing enough but doesn't exactly pass the time quite in the enjoyable way the NYRB Classics seem to be intended to do.
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Title: Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton ISBN: 0674006704 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park ISBN: 0942299914 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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