FERNEL, JEAN FRANCOIS (1497-1558)
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FERNEL, JEAN FRANCOIS (1497-1558) , French physician, was born at Clermont in 1497, and after receiving his early education at his native town, entered the college of Sainte-Barbe, Paris. At first he devoted himself to mathematical and astronomical studies; his Cosmotheoria (1528) records a determination of a degree of the meridian , which he made by counting the re-volutions of his carriage wheels on a journey between Paris and Amiens. But from 1534 he gave himself up entirely to medicine , in which he graduated in 1J30. His extraordinary general erudition, and the skill and success with which he sought to revive the study of the old Greek physicians, gained him a great teputation, and ultimately the office See Also: - OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
of physician to the court . Me practised with great success, and at his death in 1558 left behind him an immense fortune. He also wrote Monalosphaerium, sive astrolabii genus, generals horarii structura et uses (1526); De proportionibus (1528); De evacuandi ratione (1545); De abditis reruns causis (1548); and Medicina ad Henricum I7. (1554).
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