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Word: gerolamo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gambling." wrote Gerolamo Cardano, "ought to be discussed by a medical doctor like one of the incurable diseases." Cardano himself was just the man to do the job. One of the leading Italian physicians of the 16th century, he was an unsurpassed mathematician, and he suffered from an acute case of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cinquecento Crapshooter | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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