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“Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.”

Quote by Gerolamo Cardano

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Gerolamo Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer, and philosopher who lived from September 24, 1501, to September 21, 1576. He is regarded as one of the most prominent mathematicians of the Renaissance era. more

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