The Book on Games of Chance by Gerolamo Cardano

Author:Gerolamo Cardano [Gerolamo Cardano]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc
Published: 2015-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

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8 The “organ” was a loose floor board under the table on which one player rested his foot, receiving signals from an accomplice who moved the board slightly, usually by pulling a string from another room. The “consensus” is an unknown device; the word itself means complicity or collusion.

9 Thomas Lezius was probably one of Cardano’s gambling com panions during the time he lived in the town of Sacco.

10 Chorus: four of a kind.

11 In chapter eighteen of De Subtilitate the man’s name is given as Soma. For his card tricks see Ore, p. 133.

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