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Fernel, Jean-François

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BornMontdidier (Somme), France, circa1497

Died Fontainebleau (Essonne), France, 1558

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Fernel, Jean-François. Courtesy of History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Small Portraits Collection

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  • Forrester, John M. and John Henry (2005). Jean Fernel’s On the Hidden Causes of Things: Forms, Souls, and Occult Diseases in Renaissance Medicine. Leiden: Brill.

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  1. Eddington Astronomical Society of Kendal, Kendal, Cumbria, UK

    Stuart Atkinson

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

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  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Atkinson, S. (2014). Fernel, Jean-François. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_448

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