. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . for the marvelous, suchinconceivable credulity and superstition, and such sanityand boasting, he would have been a remarkable characterin his age. Leibnitz said of him: Notwithstanding hisfaults. Cardan was a great man and, without his defects,would have been incomparable. He wrote extensivelyon philosophy, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes headmitted to his writings the most absurd statements ofvisions,
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . for the marvelous, suchinconceivable credulity and superstition, and such sanityand boasting, he would have been a remarkable characterin his age. Leibnitz said of him: Notwithstanding hisfaults. Cardan was a great man and, without his defects,would have been incomparable. He wrote extensivelyon philosophy, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes headmitted to his writings the most absurd statements ofvisions, etc., and again affirmed that he had never devotedhimself to cabalistic art, blamed those who practiced it, andjeered at those who believed in it. He wrote extensivelyon chiromancy. For his own follies and misfortunes he CARDAN. PARACELSUS. 143 apologized, attributing them all to the influences of thestars. The most colossal figure in this collection of mediaevalcharlatans and knaves was Paracelsus. He was born in1493, near Zurich, of a well-to-do family, his father being aphysician. He had a good preliminary education, andthen visited the various universities, or rather university.
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