Jean François Fernel

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Jean Fernel (from his work "Universa medicina")

Jean François Fernel also Joannes Fernelius (* around 1497 in Montdidier (Somme) , France , † 1558 in Fontainebleau ) was a French medic. He introduced the terms physiology and pathology and was the first to describe the spinal cord .

First, Fernel studied astronomy and mathematics . In 1525 he carried out a degree measurement north of Paris to determine the circumference of the earth. After his presentation in the Cosmotheoria , he determined the pole height of Paris with a wooden stick rotatably mounted in a triangle, drove north until the pole height had increased by 1 ° after his observation, counted on the way back (after a certain deduction for the odd and uneven road) 17024 revolutions of the wheel of his carriage and determined 56,746 Toises or 110,598 m for the meridian arc of 1 °.

In 1529 he began studying medicine and in 1532 he received his doctorate in Paris.

After Fernel had been appointed professor in 1534 and opened a medical practice, he also became the personal physician of Heinrich II. And Katharina de Medici .

The lunar crater Fernelius was named after him in 1935.

He lost his wife in 1556 and died two years later of liver disease; his grave was at the Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie.

Works

De proportionibus libri duo (1528)
  • Monalosphaerium , 1526
  • De proportionibus , 1528
  • Cosmotheoria . 1528 ( full text in google book search). (To measure the degree of 1525)
  • De naturali parte medicinae. , Paris 1542
  • Universa medicina (Physiologia, Pathologia, Therapeutice) , 1567
  • Therapeutices universalis libri septem , 1571
  • Febrium curandarum methodus generalis , 1577
  • De luis venereae curatione perfictissima liber. Antwerp 1579.

literature

  • W. Bruce Fye: Jean Francois Fernel, in: Clinical cardiology, Vol. 20, Number 12 (1997), 1037-1038.
  • Barbarba I. Tshisuake: Fernel, Jean. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 394.

Web links

Commons : Jean François Fernel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Primi Capite Scholia , margin number 8 (p. 4)
  2. ^ Rudolf Wolf: History of Astronomy . In: History of the Sciences in Germany. Modern times . At the instigation and with the support of His Majesty the King of Bavaria, Maximilian II. Ed. by the Historical Commission at the Königl. Academy of Sciences. tape 16 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1877, p. 168 ( digital-sammlungen.de ).
  3. ↑ Jean Picard criticized this representation in his Mesure de la Terre in 1671 without any details
personal data
SURNAME Fernel, Jean François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fernelius, Joannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French astronomer and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1497
PLACE OF BIRTH Montdidier (Somme) , France
DATE OF DEATH 1558
Place of death Fontainebleau