The Book of My Life (New York Review Books Classics)
by Cardano, Girolamo
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1590170164
- ISBN 13
- 9781590170168
- Seller
-
Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
NYRB Classics, 2002 8vo (20 cm), XX, 291 pp. Laminated wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed at extremities, blind collector's stamp on the title page). "A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct. Whether discussing his sex life or his diet, the plots of academic rivals or meetings with supernatural beings, or his deep sorrow when his beloved son was executed for murder, Cardano displays the same unbounded curiosity that made him a scientific pioneer. At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae, and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait--book to set beside Montaigne's Essays and Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography." (from the blurb)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008364
- Title
- The Book of My Life (New York Review Books Classics)
- Author
- Cardano, Girolamo
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590170164
- ISBN 13
- 9781590170168
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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