| The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine Subjects: Cardano Girolamo 1501-1576 -- Contributions in medicine; Medicine -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Cardano Girolamo 1501–1576 -- Philosophy; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance culture. Nancy G. Siraisi is Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her books include Avicenna in Renaissance Italy and Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils , both published by Princeton University Press, and Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine (Chicago). |