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See also: born at Clermont in 1497, and after receiving his early See also: education at his native See also: town, entered the See also: college of Sainte-Barbe, See also: Paris
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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 See also: carriage wheels on a journey between Paris and See also: Amiens
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But from 1534 he gave himself up entirely to See also: medicine, in which he graduated in 1J30
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His extraordinary 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 office of physician to the See also: court
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Me practised with great success, and at his See also: death in 1558 See also: left behind him an immense See also: fortune
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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
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