“Since this art surpasses all human subtelty and the perspecuity of mortal talent and is truly a celestial gift and a very clear test of the capacity of man's minds, whoever applies himself to it will believe that there is nothing that he cannot understand.”

Source: The Great Rules of Algebra (1968), Ch.1 On Double Solutions in Certain Types of Cases

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Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer 1501–1576

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