Cardano v Tartaglia: The Great Feud Goes Supernatural
History and Overview
2015-09-11 v5 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
Many of the stories surrounding the famous sixteenth century feud between Girolamo Cardano and Niccolo Tartaglia are completely unsupported by the historical record. In particular, stories that have Tartaglia aiding and abetting Cardano's arrest for heresy are chronologically impossible.
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@article{arxiv.1308.2181,
title = {Cardano v Tartaglia: The Great Feud Goes Supernatural},
author = {Tony Rothman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2181},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
28 pages. Substantially as in The Mathematical Intelligencer; several misprints corrected from previous ArXiv version and minor corrections