Libelli Quinque: De supplemento Almanach. De restitutione temporum et motuum coelestium. De iudiciis geniturarum. Etc.

Nurnberg, J.Petreius, 1547

" A physician born to a noble family in Milan, who was professor of medicine at Pavia and Bologna. In 1551 he traveled to Scotland to cure John Hamilton, the archbishop of St. Andrews, of a dangerous illness, and cast a horoscope for Edward VI. Cardanus was also a prodigious writer on subjects such as algebra and health. He described the characteristics or indicators of long life which, according to him, were: a family history of long life in at least of one of the parents; a cheerful easy disposition; and the ability to sleep long and soundly. He died a few weeks after publishing his autobiography, De propria vita. He had a tragic life, as one of his two sons was executed for murdering his wife, and the other son became a reprobate" (A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, Anton Sebastian).

"Dr. Cushing had assembled a dossier concerning Cardan's much discussed horoscope of Vesalius, but he had not as yet incorporated the material in the text of the bio-bioography.The horoscope appears on leaf 178 and the horoscope itself has been translated as follows:'Horoscope of Andreas Vesalllius. (Born) December 30, 1514.' Most admirable expert in dissecting cadavers, comparable in merit to the Ancients, he wrote a work which whilst his first yet is so excellent as to solve all difficulties."

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