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member what they all were, because they were all dis- 

 similar; but if you go to the notary, he will no doubt be 

 able to give you a copy. 



ZUAN ANTONIO. Be pleased, then, to give .me his. 

 NiCOLO. They are these precisely as he wrote them : 

 1 Glory to God, 1534, the 22nd day of February, in 



Venice. 



* These are the thirty arguments proposed by me, An- 

 tonio Maria Fior, to you, Master Nicolo Tartaglia.' " 

 It is not requisite to quote them here. From this 

 account given, by Tartalea himself, it appears that Jerome's 

 application was of a reasonable kind. Tartalea had been 

 during four years in possession of his knowledge, and had 

 published nothing but his small work on Artillery, that 

 too, though he was a poor man, at his own expense. 

 There was no reason to believe that Tartalea designed to 

 publish what he knew in any independent work on ma- 

 thematics. Moreover, there seems to have been no pub- 

 lisher willing to print at his own cost the writings of a 

 man who could not address the learned in the language 

 properly appointed for their use, or could not write even 

 Italian otherwise than in the very dialect to which he had 

 been born. It was therefore just and natural that Car- 

 dan should propose the embodiment in his own treatise of 

 Tartalea's additions to the science about which he wrote, 

 with a due publication of his claims as a discoverer. If, 



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