Jerome Cardan

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Author：William George Waters
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter Lx.x.x of the work some disparaging remarks about the Dominican brotherhoods, making Cardan responsible for the a.s.sertion that they were rapacious wolves who hunted down reputed witches and despisers of G.o.d, not because of their offences, but because they chanced to be the possessors of much wealth. Cardan remonstrated at once--he always made it his practice to keep free from all theological wrangling,--but Petrus treated the whole question with ridicule,[173] and it does not seem that Cardan could have had any very strong feeling in the matter, for the obnoxious pa.s.sage is retained in the editions of 1556 and 1557. The religious authorities were however fully justified in a.s.suming that the presence of such a pa.s.sage in the pages of a book so widely popular as the _De Varietate_ would necessarily prove a cause of scandal, and give cause to the enemy to blaspheme. For Reginald Scot, in the eighth chapter of _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, alludes to the pa.s.sage in question in the following terms: "Carda.n.u.s writeth that the cause of such credulitie consisteth in three points: to wit in the imagination of the melancholike, in the constancie of them that are corrupt therewith, and in the deceipt of the Judges; who being inquisitors themselves against heretikes and witches, did both accuse and condemne them, having for their labour the spoile of their goods. So as these inquisitors added many fables hereunto, least they should seeme to have doone injurie to the poore wretches, in condemning and executing them for none offense. But sithens (said he) the springing up of Luther"s sect, these priests have tended more diligentlie upon the execution of them; bicause more wealth is to be caught from them; insomuch as now they deale so looselie with witches (through distrust of gaines) that all is seene to be malice, follie, or avarice that hath beene practised against them. And whosoever shall search into this cause, or read the cheefe writers hereupon, shall find his words true."
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter x.x.xvii. _et seq. Opera_, tom. i. p. 377.
Chapter 15