INDEX. 



A. 



ACADEMIC year, the, at Padua, i. 51 

 Academy. See Padua, Pavia, Bologna, 



Affidati, Rector 

 Accuser, the book of the, i. 189 

 Adda, battle of the, i. 19 

 Adversity, Cardan on the uses of,ii. 160, 



191, 194, :14i 



Aftaidatus, Carolus, ii. 151 

 Affidati, accademia degli, at Pavia, ii. 



257259 

 Agates, ii. 64, 65 



Agen, J. C. Scaliger at, ii. 171174 

 Agreement, written, between Cardan 



and Archbishop Hamilton, ii. 99 

 Agrippa, a book on, i. 118 

 Ailments, bodily, of Cardan, i. 6, 8, 10 



19, 23, 35, 39, 73, 79, 80, 83, 113, 119, 293, 



299, 302; ii. 17, 147, 269, 270,274,275, 



310312 



Aix-la-Chapelle, ii. 151 

 Albuzio, Gianpietro, ii. 163, 164, 260 

 Alciati, Andrea, jurist, ii. 2025 



Francisco, cardinal, ii. 163, 284, 300 



Aldo, Cardan's youngest son, i. See 



Cardan 

 Aldobello, Cardan's father-in-law. See 



Bandarini 

 Algebra, Cardan's. See Great Art 



Tartalea's book on, i. 247 



state of, in Cardan's tune, i. 208 



222 



connexion of with physic, i. 208 



Cardan's discoveries in, i. 275, 276 



Algebrist, healer of bruises, 

 Algebrists betting, i. 215219 

 Allowance to servants, ii. 50 

 Almanac, Cardan's supplement to the, 



i. 142, 278 



Almanacs, Cardan a maker of,i. 200 

 Alphabet, a grandee ignorant of the, ii. 



262 



Altovito, a banker in Rome, ii. 311 

 Ainati, Giuseppe, ii. 164 

 Amber, ii. 64 

 Angels, ii. 68 

 Anger, ii. 194 

 Animals, Cardan's love of, i. 81, 295 ; 



ii. 41 

 Anointing portions of the body, i. 293 ; 



ii. 120 



Answer to Scaliger, Cardan's, ii. 168 

 Antwerp, ii. 151 

 Appearance, personal, of Cardan, i. 35, 



40,80,81; ii. 17,18 



Appearance, personal, of Fazio, his 

 father, i. 2 



Gianbatista,his son, ii. 203204 



Alciat, the jurist, ii. 25 



Cardinal Sfondrato, ii. 72 



Sylvius, at Paris, ii. 100 



Fernel, at Paris, ii. 102 



King Edward VI., ii. 131, 132, 135, 



136 



Sir John Cheke, ii. 134 



Apprenticeship, ii. 249250 



Apuleius, the mysterious seller of an, i. 



68 



Arabian physicians, i. 89 

 Arcana of Eternity, Cardan's,!. 156, 160, 



161 

 Archinto, Filippo, i. 124, 125, 129, 131, 



140, 141, 176, 200, 279; ii. 201 

 Architecture, Cardan's lectures on, i. 



126 



Argent onius, ii. 39 

 Argument, Cardan in, i. 64, 128, 137; ii. 



57, 58, 209, 281 

 Arithmetic, Cardan's first lessons in, i. 



4*4 



lectures upon, i. 125, 263. See Plat 



book upon, i. 142 



practice of, i. 177180,244,255,257, 



259,262; ii. 19 



Arms of Cardan's family, ii. 302 



Ars Curandi Parva, Cardan's, ii. 157 



Magna. See Great Art 



Arsenic, ii. 208; in pound doses, 222; 

 evidences of poisoning by, ii. 223, 245; 

 not poisonous when cooked, ii. 234 



Artillery, Tartalea's new science of, i. 

 221, 227, 233 ; his defence of the study, 

 238, 239 



invention of, ii. 29, 61 



Asses' milk, ii. 119, 120, 128 



Asthma, Cardan's study and treatment 

 of a case of, ii. 113128 



Astrology, Cardan's first instruction in, 

 i. 44; his early death predicted by, i. 

 66, 73; writes a tract on, i. 154, 186; 

 sells astrological opinions, i. 200 ; his 

 practice of the art, i. 280, 281 ; a Pope's 

 belief in it, ii. 5 ; a book on it, ii. 19 ; 

 Alciat's opinion of it, ii. 22 ; its con- 

 nexion with palmistry, i. 96 ; and ap- 

 plication to physiognomy, ii. 5456. 

 See also Horoscopes 



Astronomical opinions, a book on, 1. 118 



instruments described, i. 188 



Astronomy, Cardan's lectures on, i, 125 



