298 JEROME CARDAN 



peculiar spirit, his name would have been now unknown, 

 save to a few algebraists ; and his desire, expressed in 

 one of the meditative passages of the De Vita Propria, 

 would have been amply fulfilled : " Non tamen unquam 

 concupivi gloriam aut honores : imo sprevi, cuperem 

 notum esse quod sim, non opto ut sciatur qualis sim." l 



1 De Vita Propriety ch. ix. p. 30. 



