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JEAN FRANCOIS FERNEL (1497-1558)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERNEL (1497-1558)  ,
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French physician, was
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born at Clermont in 1497, and after receiving his
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early
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education at his native
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town, entered the
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college of Sainte-Barbe,
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Paris . At first he devoted himself to mathematical and astronomical studies; his Cosmotheoria (1528) records a determination of a degree of the
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meridian, which he made by counting the re-volutions of his
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carriage wheels on a
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journey between Paris and
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Amiens . But from 1534 he gave himself up entirely to
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medicine, in which he graduated in 1J30 . His extraordinary
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general erudition, and the skill and success with which he sought to revive the study of the old
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Greek physicians, gained him a
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great teputation, and ultimately the
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office of physician to the
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court . Me practised with great success, and at his
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death in 1558
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left behind him an immense
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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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