“So shall we voyd of all craft and sail, with true reason declare how much each man erreth in life, judgement, opinion, and will. Some things there are that so wel do prove themselves, as besides nature nede no profe at all.”

—  Girolamo Cardano

Cardanus Comforte (1574)

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Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer 1501–1576

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