Jean François Fernel
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
- 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ In: Primi Capite Scholia , margin number 8 (p. 4)
- ^ 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 ).
- ↑ Jean Picard criticized this representation in his Mesure de la Terre in 1671 without any details
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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 |