Pierre Petit (scholar)

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Pierre Petit (* 1617 in Paris ; † 1687 ibid) was a French poet, classical philologist (Latinist) and doctor. He also published under the pen name Marinus Statileus and Euthyphron.

Petit studied and obtained a doctorate in medicine from the University of Montpellier . However, he did not practice the profession of doctor, but devoted himself to literature and science in Paris, supported by wealthy patrons such as the President of Parliament Guillaume de Lamoignon (1617–1677) and later the President of the Financial Supervisory Authority ( Chambre des comptes ) Aymar de Nicolai .

Petit was an opponent of René Descartes and Cartesianism, against which he wrote De Motu Animalium Spontaneo in 1660 .

He died the same year he married. His funeral address was written by his friend, the Abbé Nicaise (Elogium et tumulus Petri Petiti, 1687).

Fonts

Under your own name:

  • Élégie sur la mort de Gabriel Naudé , 1653
  • De Motu Animalium Spontaneo , 1660
  • Epistolæ Apologetica; A. Menjoti de variis Sectis Amplectendis examen: ad Medicos Parisienses, Autore Adriano Sauro, DM , 1666
  • Apologia pro genuitate Fragmenti Satyrici Petroniani , 1666
  • Gelliani problematis explicatio, sive de continentia Alexandri Magni, et Publii Scipionis Africani. Dialogus , Paris, 1668
  • Commentaire sur les trois premiers livres d ' Arétée , 1726 (with biography of Petit)

As Marinus Statileus:

  • De nova Curandorum Morborum Ratione per Transfusionem Sanguinis , 1667, where he speaks out against blood transfusion as a therapy

As euthyphro:

  • Miscellanearum Observationum , Utrecht 1683
  • Selectorum Poematum, liber ii. accessit Dissertatio de Furore Poetico , Paris 1688.
  • De Amazonibus, Dissertatio , Paris 1685, Leiden 1712 (evidence of the existence of the Amazons )
  • Traité historique sur les amazones , Leiden 1718
  • De Natura et Moribus Anthropophagorum, Dissertation , Utrecht, 1688
personal data
SURNAME Petit, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eutyphron; Statileus, Marinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1687
Place of death Paris