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15011504. Among nurses, a neglected 

 infant, 8 12; 35. 



15041508. With his parents in Milan, 

 a tormented child, 11, 12 

 17 ; 3537. 



1509. After a severe illness dedi- 



cated to St. Jerome, 18. 



1509-1519. His youth, 2432. Early 

 instruction, 26, 28, 31, 32. 

 Admonished by the death 

 of a young man, 25, writes 

 on the Earning of Immor- 

 tality, 25, 91, also a geome- 

 trical tract, 27, 91, and, 

 being already a gambler, 

 a Treatise upon Games of 

 Chance, 28, 9295. Is 

 taught music secretly at 

 his mother's charge, 45, 

 and earns money by giving 



lessons upon dialectics, 45. 



Claims proper education, 

 81, 42, 43. 



1520 is sent to the University of 



Pavia, 44. 



152122. His mode of study there, 46, 

 47. He teaches Euclid, 46, 

 and begins another trea- 

 tise, 47. 



152223. The schools being closed by 

 war, remains at home, 

 writes mathematical com- 

 mentaries, abjures law, 

 and determines to study 

 medicine, 48, 49. 



1524 goes to the University of 



Padua, 50 ; his father dies, 

 51 ; there are disputes 

 about inheritance, 55, 56. 



1323. Assumes the costly office of 



Rector Gymnasii, 5863; 

 to his mother's loss, 63, 

 Forms a friendship with a 

 student named Ottaviano 

 Scoto, 63, 61. 



1526. Graduates as M.D. after two 



rejections, 70, 71, and by 

 advice of a kindly profes- 

 sor begins practice, at 

 Sacco; goes there on his 

 birthday, Sept. 24th, 73. 

 His sense of impotence, 73. 



152632. At Sacco, 71 SO. Writes 

 treatises, 75, 9599, 101 

 113; gambles, 77, 78; in 

 1528 has tertian fever, 78 ; 

 in 1529, quits Sacco for a 

 few months and attempts 

 to establish himself in 

 Milan, 78, but returns de- 

 feated and very ill, 79, 80. 

 Towards the end of 1531 

 marries at Sacco Lucia 

 Bandarini, 8386. 



1532. In February, goes with his 



wife to Milan, 112, 113. Is 

 excluded from the College 



of Physicians, 114 ; fails to 

 establish himself; his wife 

 miscarries twice, 115. Be- 

 lieving that they see an 

 opening, 116, in the year 



1533. towards the end of April, 

 they remove to Gallarate, 

 116. Fortune still frown- 

 ing, Jerome writes a trea- 

 tise upon fate, 117. 



1534. May 14th, eldest son born, 



and named Gianbatista, 

 120. Having only earned 

 forty crowns in nineteen 

 months, returns with his 

 wife beggared to Milan, 

 and they go into the poor- 

 house, 123. Archinto, a 

 young patron, obtains for 

 him a small appointment 

 as lecturer on five subjects 

 under the endowment of 

 one Thomas Plat, 125. Ho 

 begins five books, 126,131. 



1535. Physician to Augustin Friars, 



129 ; cures their prior, his 

 first patient of note, 130. 

 Writes on the Bad Prac- 

 tice in Use among the 

 Doctors, 139, and other 

 works ; among them begins 

 an Arithmetic, 142. 



1536. His college friend, Scoto, 



becomes a printer, pub- 

 lishes " The Bad Practice 

 in Use among the Doctors," 

 and Cardan appears for the 

 first time in print, 142, 

 143. The book fails, and 

 damages its author, 145 

 147. 



In the same year Lo- 

 dovico Ferrari comes to 

 Cardan as a servant, 

 148, 265, is made a 

 pupil and associate, 266, 

 and shares his studies in 

 mathematics, 149. Cardan, 

 is invited to teach medi- 

 cine at Pavia, but declines 

 to do so without certain 

 stipend, 150. He tries iu 

 vain to please the Pope, to 

 whom he journeys (toPla- 

 centia), 150, but acquires 

 some other strong friends, 

 151, 156; makes a strong 

 enemy, 151 153. Is cried 

 down as an astrologer, 153, 

 154. Begins a Life of 

 Christ, illustrative of his 

 Nativity, 155, and has a 

 daughter born named 

 Clara, 161. 



1537. Writes books on Wisdom 



and Consolation, 159, 188 

 198. Dallies with the 



