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