INDEX. 



319 



him in great fame, 284 

 309. Iri the succeeding 

 year, 



1546, there being no public funds 



at Pavia, Cardan does not 

 lecture there, 302, but 

 writes at Milan for six 

 months, almost without 

 intermission. Lucia, his 

 wife, dies at the close of 

 this year, 303, 304. 



VOL. II. 



1546. In the same year law-suits, 



that have lasted since his 

 father's death, are ended 

 prosperously, 1, and he is 

 offered a handsome pen- 

 sion if he will enter the 

 service of Pope Paul III., 

 25 ; this he declines, 58. 

 He declines also 800 crowns 

 a year, with maintenance 

 for a household of five, and 

 three horses, offered on the 

 part of the King of Den- 

 mark for his services, 9 

 14, desiring to educate his 

 children, 9, 15. 



1547. His salary at Pavia is raised 



to 400 gold crowns. He 

 becomes the friend and 

 colleague of Alciat, the 

 jurist, 24, 25; visits a pa- 

 tient at Genoa, 28 ; and on 

 the way home writes a 

 Book of Precepts for his 

 children, 2841, to whom 

 he is much attached, 42 

 49. 



1548,1549. Prospers at Pavia; writes 

 books, and educates his 

 eldest son and a young 

 relative, Gaspar Cardan, 

 for his own profession, 52 

 54. 



1550. There being again no money 



in the hands of the autho- 

 rities, Cardan remains in 

 Milan, writing books, 54. 



1551. The lectures resumed, and 



Cardan's XXI Books on 

 Subtilty appear at Paris, 

 56 69. They become ex- 

 tremely popular, and are 

 reprinted in many places, 

 57. At the end of this year 

 Sfondrato being dead, and 

 Pavia hemmed in with 

 wars and troubles, the 

 professorship there is re- 

 signed, 70, 71, and Cardan 

 goes to Milan, where, at 

 the end of November, he 

 receives a letter from "Wil 

 Ham Cassanate, body phy- 

 sician to the Archbishop 



(John Hamilton) of St. 

 Andrew's. In consequence 

 of his fame, and of the 

 statement that he had 

 cured Phthisis, which had 

 been met with in one of 

 his books, he is requested 

 to meet the archbishop 

 professionally at Paris or 

 Lyons, 7484. Accord- 

 ingly, in 



1552, on the 12th of February, 



Cardan sets out, with five 

 followers, 125, for Lyons, 



90, where he finds no 

 archbishop, and practises 

 among the French nobles 

 for thirty-eight days, 90, 



91. Hamilton being un- 

 able to leave Scotland, 89, 

 Cassanate arrives at Lyons 

 with a letter from him to 

 Cardan, 92,94, and Cardan, 

 stopping by the way at 

 Paris, where he is heartily 

 welcomed, 96106, and re- 

 ceives offers from King 

 Henry II., and on behalf 

 of Mary Queen of Scots, 

 98, 99. Proceeds then to 

 Edinburgh, and arrives 

 there on the 29th of June. 

 He remains in Edinburgh 

 till the 12th of September, 

 studying the archbishop's 

 disease, asthma, 111125, 

 then leaves him much re- 

 lieved, and in possession of 

 a code of rules concerning 

 medicine and regimen, by 

 obedience to which he may 

 continue to improve in 

 health, 125 128. He goes 

 then to London, 129, where 

 he converses with King 

 Edward VI., 136, 137, cal- 

 culates his nativity, 138 

 140, and becomes ac- 

 quainted with the English 

 court, 141, 142. He ob- 

 serves the English people, 

 143 145; and travels home 

 by way of the Netherlands, 

 the Rhine, and Switzer- 

 land, 147153, taking with 

 him William, an English 

 boy of good family. He 

 reaches Milan again in 



1553, on the 3rd of January. At 



the height of his fame, 159, 

 he practises among the 

 magnates of the town, 

 writes books, and neglects 

 the English boy, 167, 168. 



1554. Cardan, still 'prospering 



greatly, hears from Arch- 

 bishop Hamilton at the 



