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== Works == * ''De malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus'', Hieronymus Scotus, Venice, 1536 (on medicine).<ref>1545 edition, Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/hin-wel-all-00000131-001/page/n11 Internet Archive].</ref> * ''Practica arithmetice et mensurandi singularis'' (on mathematics), Io. Antoninus Castellioneus/Bernadino Caluscho, Milan, 1539.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/hin-wel-all-00000134-001/page/n8 Internet Archive].</ref> * ''De Consolatione, Libri tres'', Hieronymus Scotus, Venice, 1542.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=evs5AAAAcAAJ Google].</ref> ** Translation into English by [[Thomas Bedingfield (d. 1613)|T. Bedingfield]] (1573).<ref>T. Bedingfield, ''Cardanus Comforte'', T. Marshe, London 1573. Full text (page views) at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556001441757;view=1up;seq=7 Hathi Trust].</ref> * ''Libelli duo: De Supplemento Almanach; De Restitutione temporum et motuum coelestium; Item Geniturae LXVII insignes casibus et fortuna, cum expositione'', Iohan. Petreius, Norimbergae, 1543.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=8d5SAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 Google].</ref> * ''De Sapientia, Libri quinque'', Iohan. Petreius, Norimbergae, 1544 (with ''De Consolatione'' reprint and ''De Libris Propriis'', book I).<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://bildsuche.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=viewer&bandnummer=bsb10166666&pimage=00001&v=100&nav=&l=en Bayerische StaatsBibliothek]; ''De Sapientia'' at pp. 1-273.</ref> * ''De Immortalitate animorum'', Henric Petreius, Nuremberg 1544/Sebastianus Gryphius, Lyons, 1545.<ref>1545 edition, Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_42261/page/n6 <!-- pg=1 --> Google].</ref> * ''Contradicentium medicorum'' (on medicine), Hieronymus Scotus, Venetijs, 1545.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_jGhH5AVrxyIC Google].</ref> * ''[[Ars Magna (Cardano book)|Artis magnae, sive de regulis algebraicis]]'' (on algebra: also known as ''Ars magna''), Iohan. Petreius, Nuremberg, 1545.<ref>[http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/cardano/testi/operaomnia/vol_4_s_4.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626092254/http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/cardano/testi/operaomnia/vol_4_s_4.pdf|date=26 June 2008}} An electronic copy of his book ''[[Ars Magna (Cardano book)|Ars Magna]]'' (in Latin)</ref><ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://bildsuche.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=viewer&bandnummer=bsb00029375&pimage=5&v=100&nav=&l=fr Bayerische StaatsBibliothek]; another at [https://archive.org/details/hieronymicardan00card/page/n3 Internet Archive].</ref> ** Translation into English by D. Witmer (1968).<ref>{{Citation |translator=Witmer, T. Richard |others=foreword by [[Øystein Ore|Ore, Oystein]] |orig-year=1968 |year=2007 |title=The Rules of Algebra: Ars Magna |series=Dover Books on Mathematics |publisher=Dover Publications |page=304 |url={{Google books|ZMZY79bvOPgC|The Rules of Algebra: Ars Magna|plainurl=yes}} |isbn=978-0-486-45873-1 }}</ref> * ''Della Natura de Principii e Regole Musicale'', ca 1546 (on music theory: in Italian): posthumously published.<ref>C. Sponius (ed.), ''Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis opera omnia'' (Lyons, 1663), IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7lW9Odn9kbMC&pg=PA621 pp. 621-end] (Google).</ref> (most likely falsely attributed to Cardano)<ref name="Grove"/> * ''De Subtilitate rerum'' (on natural phenomena), [[Johann Petreius]], Nuremberg, 1550.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/hin-wel-all-00000138-001/page/n8 Internet Archive]; another at [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/06d8c190-6ca1-0134-ecf8-00505686a51c#/?uuid=081debe0-6ca1-0134-d24f-00505686a51c New York Public Libraries]. Paris 1550 edition, Michael Fezandat and Robert GranIon (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Tmf3wRsurVsC Google].</ref> ** Translation into English by J.M. Forrester (2013).<ref>J.M. Forrester (trans.), ''The De Subtilitate of Girolamo Cardano'' (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe 2013).</ref> * ''[[Metoposcopy|Metoposcopia]] libris tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa'' (on physiognomy), written 1550 (published posthumously by Thomas Jolly, Paris (Lutetiae Parisiorum), 1658).<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=K4_j9ikw3ZQC Google].</ref> * ''In Cl. Ptolemaei Pelusiensis IIII, De Astrorum judiciis... libros commentaria: cum eiusdem De Genituris libro'', Henrichus Petri, Basle, 1554.<ref>1554 edition, Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=BoVAcgAACAAJ Google]; from [https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11199111?page=1 Bayerische StaatsBibliothek/Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum]. 1578 Heinrich Petri edition, Basle, at [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ex9DAAAAcAAJ Google].</ref> * ''Geniturarum Exemplar'' (''De Genituris liber'', separate printing), Theobaldus Paganus, Lyons, 1555.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ii1mAAAAcAAJ&pg=Frontcover Google].</ref> * ''Ars Curandi Parva'' (written c. 1556).<ref>1564/66 edition, 2 volumes, HenricPetrini, Basel, Full texts at Google, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wBc8AAAAcAAJ Vol. I], [https://books.google.com/books?id=cwo8AAAAcAAJ Vol. II].</ref> * ''De Libris propriis'' (about the books he has written, and his successes in medical work), Gulielmus Rouillius, Leiden, 1557.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BEKRqbLNspoC/page/n22 <!-- pg=1 --> Google].</ref> * ''De Rerum varietate, Libri XVII'' (on natural phenomena); (Revised edition), Matthaeus Vincentius, Avignon 1558.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/dererumvarietate00card Internet Archive]. Another at [https://archive.org/details/dererumvarietate00card Google].</ref> Also Basle, Henricus Petri, 1559.<ref>D.F. Larder, 'The Editions of Cardanus' "De rerum varietate"', ''Isis'', Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring, 1968), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/227853?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents pp. 74-77] (JSTOR, open).</ref><ref>1581 Basle edition (original page views) at [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:2-30760 University and State Library, Düsseldorf].</ref> * ''Actio prima in calumniatorem'' (reply to J.C. Scaliger), 1557. * ''De Utilitate ex adversis capienda, Libri IIII'' (on the uses of adversity), Henrich Petri, Basle, 1561.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=yvA5AAAAcAAJ&pg=Frontcover Google].</ref> * ''Theonoston, seu De Tranquilitate'', 1561. (Opera, Vol. II). * ''Somniorum synesiorum omnis generis insomnia explicantes, Libri IIII'' (Book of Dreams: with other writings), Henricus Petri, Basle 1562.<ref>1582 edition, Full text (original page views) at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31378008334701;view=1up;seq=5 Hathi Trust].</ref> * ''Neronis encomium'' (a life of [[Nero]]), Basle, 1562.<ref>Full text (John and Cornelius Blaeu, Amsterdam 1640 edition) (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLxlAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 Google].</ref> ** Translation into English by A. Paratico (2012).<ref>A. Paratico (trans.), ''Nero: An Exemplary Life, by Girolamo Cardano'' (Inkstone publications, Chameleon Press, Hong Kong 2012).</ref> * ''De Providentia ex anni constitutione'', Alexander Benaccius, Bononiae, 1563.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1QO_LLNWsfgC Internet Archive]; another at [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DC7VCLsZWEUC Google].</ref> * ''De Methodo medendi'', Paris, In Aedibus Rouillii, 1565.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/hieronymicardan00cardgoog Internet Archive]. Another at [https://books.google.com/books?id=61Y8OvcLlJcC Google].</ref> * ''De Causis, signis ac locis morborum, Liber unus'', Alexander Benatius, Bononiae, 1569.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_n3cWySvr9EAC Internet Archive]; also in [https://books.google.com/books?id=xNfImxD_bjcC Google].</ref> * ''Commentarii in Hippocratis Coi Prognostica, Opus Divinum; Commentarii De Aere, aquis et locis opus'', Henric Petrina Officina, Basel, 1568/1570.<ref>1568 and 1570 editions, Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xt9mLetwdjwC Google]. 1570 only, at [https://books.google.com/books?id=7LaUZXtgBd0C&dq=Cardani%2C+Commentarii&pg=PP7 Google]; another at [http://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/cardano1570/0005?sid=dfe96b2dd4d60a8929c4814db2ee7d87 Freiburger historische Beistände].</ref> * ''Opus novum, De Proportionibus numerorum, motuum, ponderum, sonorum, aliarumque rerum mensurandarum. Item de aliza regula'', Henric Petrina, Basel, 1570.<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10147886?page=5 Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum/Bayerische Staatsbibliothek] or at [https://books.google.com/books?id=XyRFAAAAcAAJ Google].</ref> * ''Opus novum, cunctis De Sanitate tuenda, Libri quattuor'', Sebastian HenricPetri, Basle, 1569.<ref>Text (incomplete, original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4ZEAAAAcAAJ&pg=Frontcover Google]. Franciscus Zannettus, Rome 1580, Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=x7hfAAAAcAAJ&pg=Frontcover Google].</ref> * ''De Vita propria'', 1576 (autobiography).<ref>Full text (page views): Iacobus Villery, Paris 1653, edition at [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XsKYeQO_FiQC/page/n3 Internet Archive]; Amsterdam 1654 edition at [https://books.google.com/books?id=blA9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Google].</ref> ** Translation into English by J. Stoner (2002).<ref>{{Citation |translator=Stoner, Jean |others=introduction by Grafton, Anthony |year=2002 |title=The Book of My Life |series=New York Review Books Classics |publisher=NYRB Classics |page=320 |isbn=978-1-59017-016-8 }}</ref> * ''Liber De Ludo aleae'' ("On Casting the [[Dice|Die]]"; on probability): posthumously published.<ref>C. Sponius (ed.), ''Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis opera omnia'' (Lyons, 1663), I, [https://archive.org/details/imgmar3940MiscellaneaOpal/page/n309 pp. 262-76] (Internet Archive).</ref><ref>[[Jan Gullberg|J. Gullberg]], ''Mathematics from the birth of numbers'' (W.W. Norton & Company, 1997), p. 963. {{ISBN|0-393-04002-X}} {{ISBN|978-0-393-04002-9}}</ref> ** Translation into English by S.H. Gould (1961).<ref>{{Citation |translator=Gould, Sydney Henry |others=foreword by Wilks, Samuel S. |orig-year=1961 |year=2015 |title=The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability |series=Dover Recreational Math |publisher=Dover Publications |page=64 |url={{Google books|SJXkCgAAQBAJ|The Book on Games of Chance|plainurl=yes}} |isbn=978-0-486-79793-9 }}</ref> * ''Proxeneta, seu De Prudentia Civili'' (posthumously published: Paulus Marceau, Geneva, 1630).<ref>Full text (original page views) at [https://books.google.com/books?id=paP6XYvZZTwC&pg=PP5 Google].</ref> ===''Collected Works''=== A chronological key to this edition is supplied by M. Fierz.<ref>M. Fierz (trans. H. Niman), ''Girolamo Cardano, 1501-1576, Physician, Natural Philosopher, Mathematician, Astrologer and Interpreter of Dreams'' (Birkhäuser, Boston/Basel/Stuttgart 1983), [https://books.google.com/books?id=8ED2BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 pp. 32-33] (Google).</ref> * ''Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Opera Omnia, cura Carolii Sponii'' (Lugduni, Ioannis Antonii Huguetan and Marci Antonii Ravaud, 1663) (10 volumes, Latin): **Volume 1: Philologica, Logica, Moralia ([https://archive.org/details/imgmar3940MiscellaneaOpal/page/n2 Internet Archive]; another at [https://books.google.com/books?id=r25kAAAAcAAJ Google]; another at [https://books.google.com/books?id=5-ioDlZFawwC Google]) **Volume 2: Moralia Quaedam et Physica ([https://books.google.com/books?id=8kcIpBqL0lUC&pg=PP5 Google]) **Volume 3: Physica ([https://books.google.com/books?id=FpcIo8qMPf8C Google]) **Volume 4: Arithmetica, Geometrica, Musica ([https://books.google.com/books?id=7lW9Odn9kbMC Google]) **Volume 5: Astronomica, Astrologica, Onirocritica ([https://archive.org/stream/imgmar3940aooMiscellaneaOpal?ui=embed#mode/2up Internet Archive]; another at [https://books.google.com/books?id=tVUdw5vpyE4C Google]) **Volume 6: Medicinalium I ([https://books.google.com/books?id=Jyh0yuZZZTwC Google]) **Volume 7: Medicinalium II ([https://books.google.com/books?id=yUy3wOyaTn0C Google]) **Volume 8: Medicinalium III ([https://books.google.com/books?id=jOoxQeT40foC Google]) **Volume 9: Medicinalium IV ([https://books.google.com/books?id=xbwhwVSR324C Google]) **Volume 10: Opuscula Miscellanea ([https://books.google.com/books?id=GAczc2s-cDYC Google])
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