De Subtilitate libri XXI.

by Girolamo Cardano

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Norman, I, 401 ; Adams, C-668 ; Dibner, 139 ; Caillet, 2017; Duveen, pp. 116-117 ; Hoover, 205; Wellcome, 1290 ; Sinkankas, I, 1145 (« substantial content of information on gemstones ») ; Neville ne cite que l édition lyonnaise de 1580 ; Thorndike, V, 570-571; DSB, III, 64-66. Manque à la NLM. Édition originale. Célèbre recueil encyclopédique, l un des plus caractéristiques de Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), une mine de faits réels ou imaginaires et de considérations sur l état des sciences où se mêlent cosmologie, physiologie, mécanique, botanique, zoologie, technologie, minéralogie, alchimie, ainsi que plusieurs branches des sciences occultes. « Cardano s encyclopedic De subtilitate was the most advanced presentation of physical knowledge up to its time. It contains many remarkable observations and ideas, including Cardano s distinction between the attractive power of rubbed amber (electric) and the lodestone (magnetic), his pre-evolutionary belief in creation as progressive development, and the premise that natural law was unified and could be known through observation and experiment. The similarity of many of Cardano s scientific opinions to those in the unpublished works of Leonardo da Vinci have led some scholars to speculate that Cardano had access to Leonardo s manuscripts, although others argue that the similitude is coincidental » (Norman). Le De subtilitate est l un des derniers livres publiés par Johann Petreius (1497-1550), typographe allemand qui imprima des ouvra

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