INDEX. 



325 



Longevity of Cardan's family, i. 7 



Louvain, ii. 150 



Luca, Fra. See Paccioli 



Lucia, Cardan's wife. See Baudarini 



Lucille, ii. 258 



Lutetia, ii. 82, 107 



Luther, i. 292 



Lyons, Cardan in, ii. 9095 



M. 



Maddalena, Ferrari's sister, i. 268 



Madio, Lodovico, i. 131 



Madness of Cardan questionable, i. 



34, 35; reputed, i. 153; after son's 



death, ii. 239, 294, 313 

 Magnienus, ii. 104 

 Magpie, chattering of a, i. 148 

 Mahomet ben Musa, i. 274 

 Malo Recentiorum Medicorum Medendi 



Usu, Cardan de, i. 139147 

 Mantua, Cardinal of, i. 267. 268 



Duke of, his offer to Cardan, ii. 154 



Manuscripts, Cardan's, burning of his, 



i.159; ii.303 



number of left by Cardan, ii. 303 



Maphio, of Bergamo, i. 259 

 Margherita, Cardan's aunt, i. 12, 13 

 Marinon Prosper, i. 64; his ghost ap- 

 pears, 299 



Marking of linen, ii. 51 

 Marriage of Cardan, i. 8386, 112 ; of 



his daughter Clara, ii. 46; of his son 



Gianbatista, ii. 204200 

 Mars, influence of the planet, i. 96; ii. 

 studies ruled by, i. 136 

 Is, Cardan on, ii. 68 



. , Taddeo, Bishop, ii. 300 



i. 297; ii. 127 



Matches, flint and steel, ii. 266 

 Matelica, the Prince of, ii. 300 

 Mathematics, and matrimony, ii. 102 ; 



Cardan's early study of, i. 138, 139; 



details connected with, i. 208276. 



See Algebra, Tartalea, Great Art 

 Mattresses of silk, ii. 118 

 Matulianq, Evangelista, ii. 264 

 Mayence, ii. 151 

 Meals, ii. 120, 196. See also Breakfast, 



Dinner, Supper 

 Meats, i. 296 

 Mechanics, ii. 68 

 Medicine, why embraced by Cardan as 



a profession, i. 4749 ; state of the 



science, i. 8790; the practice, i. 39, 



138. See also Asthma, Hamilton, and 



Physicians ; Cardan's opinion of the 



Srofession at the end of his career, 

 .283 



Mediuzio.Cristofero, Cardinal, ii. 300 

 Melchior, a physician, ii. 164 

 Men, three kinds of, ii. 66 

 Merchants, letters through, ii. 74, 161 

 Mercury, studies ruled by, i. 136 

 Messenger from Scotland, ii. 161, 102 



from Bologna, ii. 263, 272, 27:} 



Metanoscopy, Cardan on, i. 281 ; ii. 53 

 56,63 



Method of Healing, Cardan on the, i. 

 75,76 



Michael, Archbishop Hamilton's Cham- 

 berlain, ii. 161, 162 



Micheletto, the rider, i. 215 



Micheria, Chiara (Cardan's mother). See 

 Clara 



Giacomo, i.l 



Angiolo, i. 7 



Milan, Cardan in, i. 1144, 45, 47, 78, 

 113-115, 123, 124300, 302; ii. 73-90, 

 153-199, 269273 



Militia, i. 107110 



Mirrors, magic, ii. 63 



Misanthropy, Cardan's, i. 6264 



Misprints in Cardan's books, i. 1, n., 145, 

 153, 187, 190 



Scaliger's book against Cardan free 



from, ii. 175 



Moirago, i. 10, 11 



Morone, Cardinal, ii. 3, 4, 5, 201, 280, 291, 

 299 



Mothers, the care of, ii. 42, 43 



Mott, Martha, i. 167 



Mountains, origin of, ii. 62 



Mules, ii. 132, 270 



Mundinus, his anatomy, i. 57, n. ; ii. 245, 

 246 



Music, Cardan's love of, i. 40; taught 

 by his mother secretly, i. 45; children 

 should be taught, ii. 43 ; love of, 202, 

 295; Cardan's Treatise on, ii. 19, 53 



N. 



Naenia, ii. 240, 241, 313, 314 

 Nails, spots on the, i. 97 

 Names, the giving of to children, ii. 36 

 Nativities. See Horoscope 

 Nature, Cardan on, ii. 287 

 Naudseus, ii. 177 



Nero, Cardan's encomium of, i. 303 

 Netherlands, Cardan in the, ii. 124-126 

 Noah's Ark, Cardan on the size of, ii. 157 

 Nobles, French, reception of Cardan by 



the, ii. 108, 123 



by the Scottish, ii. 123 



Northumberland, Duke of, Cardan's 



opinion of the.ii. 140, 141 

 Novara, ii. 145 

 Nunez, i. 269 



Nuremberg, i. 184. tfeePetreius 

 Nurses, i. 7, 8, 10, 11 ; ii. 66 



O. 



Oath, Cardan's to Tartalea, i. 249, 256, 



258,269272; ii. 30 

 Obin, ii. 152 

 Oil and the stars, i. 298 

 Ointment, an, ii. 116 

 Omens. See Portents 

 Opisthotonos, i. 165 

 Optics, i. 4; ii. 64 

 Oration, Scaliger's, on the supposed 



death of Cardan, ii. 179184 

 Orontius, ii. 95, 96 

 Orpiment, ii. 223, 225 

 Osiander, Andreas, i. 184-187, 273 



