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

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

CARRIAGE

wheels on a journey between Paris and Amiens. But from 1534 he gave himself up entirely to

medicine

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

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

physicians, gained him a

great

GREAT

teputation, and ultimately the

office

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

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

. Me practised with

great

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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