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Cardano, though celebrated as a mathematician, also held the chair of medicine at the University of Pavia.
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CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). Metoposcopia libri tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa. Cui accessit Melampodis de naevis corporis tractatus, Graece & Latine nunc primum editus. Interprete Claudio Martino Laurenderio, Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1658, 4°, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, woodcut illustrations, with privilege leaf (dampstained), 19th-century half calf (rebacked, rubbed, inner hinges split). [Krivatsy 2148; Waller 1767; Wellcome II p. 300]
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CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). Metoposcopia libri tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa. Cui accessit Melampodis de naevis corporis tractatus, Graece & Latine nunc primum editus. Interprete Claudio Martino Laurenderio, Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1658, 4°, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, woodcut illustrations, with privilege leaf (dampstained), 19th-century half calf (rebacked, rubbed, inner hinges split). [Krivatsy 2148; Waller 1767; Wellcome II p. 300]