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CARDAN IN LONDON.
Summoned to the king on his return to London 1 ,•Terotne continued to grow rich.
His visit to King Edward VI. is mentioned in mosthistories of England. In Bishop Burnet ’s History of theReformation, it is recorded thus under the year 1552:—“ This summer Cardan, the great philosopher of that age,passed through England. He was brought from Italy onthe account of Hamilton, Archbishop of St.Andrew’s, whowas then desperately sick of a dropsy. Cardan cured himof his disease: but being a man much conversant both inAstrology and Magic, as himself professed, he told thearchbishop, that though he had at present saved his life,yet he could not change his fate; for he was to die on agallows. In his going through England, he waited onKing Edward , where he was so entertained by him, andobserved his extraordinary parts and virtues so narrowly,that on many occasions he writ afterwards of him, with
1 Geniturarum Exemplar, p. 133. “ Londinum in Anglia reversus,vocatus ad regem, dona accepi.”
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