Xll CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER YIH. PAGE 



LIFE AS A LECTURER IN MILAN How JEROME AT LENGTH FOUND 

 A MAN WILLING TO PRINT ONE OF HIS BOOKS THE ISSUE OF 

 THAT ENTERPRISE 129 



CHAPTER IX. 

 PHYSIC AND PHILOSOPHY .148 



CHAPTER X. 

 ARITHMETIC AND CONSOLATION . 175 



CHAPTER XI. 

 THE WOLF AT THE DOOR 199 



CHAPTER Xn. 



OF THE GREAT ALGEBRAIC QUARREL THAT AROSE BET WEEN MJESSER 

 HIERONIMO CARDANO AND MESSER NICOLO TARTAGLIA WHAT 

 LETTERS PASSED, AND HOW TARTAGLIA FELT THAT IT WAS DUE 

 TO HIMSELF TO MAKE THE CORRESPONDENCE PUBLIC . . 207 



CHAPTER XTII. 



. THE REST OF THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE TWO MATHEMATICIANS 



IN THIS CHAPTER is CONTAINED AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE 

 AND FORTUNES OF LODOVICO FERRARI, CARDAN'S FOREMOST 

 PUPIL 254 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 THE CONQUEST OF AN ADVERSE WORLD . . . 277 



