Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae is subjected to a reappraisal based largely on considerations of practice in the 16th century gambling arena. It is argued that Cardano's purported failure to secure the foundations of a rigorous probability calculus can be explained as something that occurred precisely because of his gambling exposure, not in spite of it.
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Book
Michael Brooks;
(2017)
The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe
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Article
Gavagna, Veronica;
(2010)
Medieval Heritage and New Perspectives in Cardano's Practica arithmetice
(/isis/citation/CBB001034312/)
Article
Sara Confalonieri;
(2018)
An Overview on Cardano's "De Regula Aliza"
(/isis/citation/CBB917202273/)
Article
Pesic, Peter;
(2010)
Hearing the Irrational: Music and the Development of the Modern Concept of Number
(/isis/citation/CBB001021214/)
Article
Zhao, Jiwei;
(2008)
Reconstructing Cardano's Four Special Rules of Quartic Equation: A Discussion on the Paradigms of Research on the History of Mathematics
(/isis/citation/CBB000933533/)
Article
Sabine Rommevaux–Tani;
(2016)
Michael Stifel, lecteur de la "Practica arithmetice" de Gerolamo Cardano
(/isis/citation/CBB465327452/)
Chapter
Cesare S. Maffioli;
(2015)
Not a Limit of Art but of Nature: Cardano and Galileo on the Suction Lift of Water
(/isis/citation/CBB357566814/)
Article
Beery, Janet L.;
(2009)
Formulating Figurate Numbers
(/isis/citation/CBB000931932/)
Article
Spranzi Zuber, Marta;
(2001)
Rhétorique, dialectique et probabilité au XVIe siècle
(/isis/citation/CBB000102506/)
Thesis
Guillemet, Julien Won Woo;
(2011)
Games of Chance and Libertinage
(/isis/citation/CBB001567259/)
Article
Zanieri, Stefania;
(2000)
Un gioco ottico di Ludovico Buti al Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze
(/isis/citation/CBB000770291/)
Article
Raimondi, Francesco Paolo;
(2004)
Cardano e Vanini tra sapere pre-scientifico e scienza moderna: significato e limiti della presenza cardaniana nei testi vaniniani
(/isis/citation/CBB000630822/)
Article
Sara Confalonieri;
(2018)
A Further Analysis of Cardano’s Main Tool in the De Regula Aliza: On the Origins of the Splittings
(/isis/citation/CBB223675356/)
Article
Breathnach, C. S.;
(2002)
The Autobiography of a Renaissance Enigma, Jerome Cardan (1501--1576)
(/isis/citation/CBB000300572/)
Book
Giovanni Ferraro;
(2015)
Ricerche di storia della matematica
(/isis/citation/CBB555656970/)
Article
García Valverde, José Manuel;
(2007)
El galenismo crítico de Girolamo Cardano: Análisis de la presencia de galeno en el De Immortalitate Animorum
(/isis/citation/CBB000831503/)
Book
Schütze, Ingo;
(2000)
Die Naturphilosophie in Girolamo Cardano's De subtilitate
(/isis/citation/CBB000111424/)
Article
Siraisi, Nancy G.;
(2004)
Medicine and the Renaissance World of Learning
(/isis/citation/CBB000630215/)
Article
Nenci, Elio;
(2008)
Galileo and the Boboli Fontanieri: The Knowledge of the Hydraulic Pumps between Philosophers and Practitioners
(/isis/citation/CBB000931289/)
Article
Jean-Yves Boriaud;
(2010)
Jung analyste de Girolamo Cardano
(/isis/citation/CBB304595960/)
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