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BELON, PIERRE (1517-1564)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 711 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BELON, PIERRE (1517-1564) , French naturalist, was born about 1517 near Le Mans (Sarthe). He studied
medicine
  at Paris, where he took the degree of
doctor
 , and then became a pupil of the botanist Valerius
Cordus
  (15151544) at Wittenberg, with whom he travelled in Germany. On his return to France he was taken under the patronage of Cardinal de Tournon, who furnished him with means for undertaking an extensive scientific journey. Starting in 1546, he travelled through
Greece
 , Asia
Minor
 , Egypt, Arabia and Palestine, and returned in 1549. A full account of his travels, with illustrations, was published in 1553. Belon, who was highly favoured both by
Henry
  II. and by Charles IX., was assassinated at Paris one evening in April 1564, when coming through the Bois de Boulogne. Besides the narrative of his travels he wrote several scientific works of considerable value, particularly the Histoire naturelle des estranges poissons (1551), De aquatilibus (1553), and L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux (1555), which entitle him to be regarded as one of the first workers in the science of comparative anatomy.


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