Jean François Fernel

Japanese: フェルネル（英語表記）Jean François Fernel

1497?-1558
A leading French physician during the Renaissance. He went to Paris to study philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and later medicine. He eventually achieved success as a medical doctor, becoming a professor at the University of Paris and serving as physician to King Henry II in his later years. He developed the Renaissance theory of the unity of the heavens and man, and was deeply attracted to the ideas of magic, astrology, and mysticism that were deeply rooted at the time, but later broke away from these. As a proponent of progressive thought, he had many enemies, but his anatomical findings based on his empirical observational eye (De Natura Medica, 1542), which slightly preceded Vesalius' anatomical book (De Anatomia Humana, 1543), were innovative.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1497？‐1558
ルネサンス期のフランスを代表する医学者。パリに出て哲学，天文学，数学，のち医学を勉強した。結局は医学者として大成し，パリ大学教授となり，晩年はアンリ2世の侍医も務めた。天体･人間一如のルネサンス的理論を展開し，当時根強かった魔術，占星術，神秘思想に彼自身強く心をひかれたが，のちこれらから決別した。進歩思想の持主として敵も多かったが，ベサリウスの解剖学書(《人体の構造》1543)に少し先立つ彼の経験主義的な観察眼による解剖所見(《医学の自然的部分》1542)には斬新なものがみられる。

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