Book Of My Life; Author: Cardano, Girolamo; Introduction: Grafton, Anthony; Paperback (B Format)

Author: Cardano, Girolamo; Introduction: Grafton, Anthony
New York Review Books Classics; Paperback (B Format)
304 pages
Published: March 2003
The New York Review of Books, Inc
ISBN: 1590170164

Girolamo Cardano was a doctor, astrologer, mathematician, and natural philosopher who helped create modern algebra and invented the universal joint. He wrote this colorful autobiography while under house arrest by the Inquisition. A lively mix of picaresque adventure and campus comedy, Cardanos story gives a fascinating glimpse into the early modern period, when notions of science and the self now taken for granted were very much unresolved. The book of My Life is a vivid portrait of the life of a free-thinking intellectual and the 16th-century world in which he lived.The autobiography of the inventor of modern algebra, written in the sixteenth century.