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Cardan may refer to:
- Jerome Cardan or Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576), a Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer, and gambler
- Cardan joint, a universal joint or U joint, a joint in a rigid rod that allows the rod to 'bend' in any direction
- Cardan, Gironde, a commune of the Gironde département, in France
Usage examples of "cardan".
The worst of the struggle, as far as the world was concerned, was over, and the sharpest sorrows and the heaviest disgrace reserved for Cardan in the future were to be those nourished in his own household.
Here Cardan the elder stopped, and Jerome, his son, philosophised on the subject.
And Cardan, who dream'd that he discoursed with his dead Father in the Moon, made thereof no mortal Interpretation: and even to dream that we are dead, was no condemnable Fantasm in old oneirocriticism, as having a signification of Liberty, vacuity from Cares, exemption and freedom from Troubles, unknown unto the dead.
It appeareth by Cardan (who writeth it upon the report of the bishop of Lexovia), in the geniture of King Edward the Sixth, how Henry the Eighth, executing his laws very severely against such idle persons, I mean great thieves, petty thieves, and rogues, did hang up threescore and twelve thousand of them in his time.