Cardano's Eclectic Psychology and its Critique by Julius Caesar Scaliger.
This paper examines the theories of the soul proposed by Girolamo Cardano in his De immortalitate animorum (1545) and his De subtilitate (1550-4), Julius Caesar Scaliger's comprehensive critique of these views in the Exercitationes exotericae de subtilitate of 1557, and Cardano's reply to this criti...
| Publicado en: | Vivarium Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 392 - 418 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2008
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