The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine

by Nancy G. Siraisi

Book Overview

Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691628106
• ISBN13: 9780691628103
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"