Jerome Cardano is a clever man. A mathematician, a mostly self-taught doctor, a cosmologist and a system” gambler. He dwells in complex theories that we, as mere mortal, would still not understand. As quantum physicists we would. His mother runs a brothel. Jerome has a run of bad luck.
Married to a beautiful wife, their son has a few problems: webbed toes, milky eyes, deafness and Jerome had the thought of “
casting him aside and let him pule in vain”… But he does not. They live in the most abject poverty and move to even worse poverty in Milan… Begging and living in the streets, he eventually enters a charitable workhouse, doing menial tasks in exchange of being fed and lodged. The family barely survives… Cardano is an intelligent common sense man with no opportunity to prove it. Though he has been troubled by strange coincidences that led him to feel cursed (see Dr Who and the Wasp), he writes later on that the power of the curse lies in the accursed pe
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