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Jean Fernel

1497 - 1558

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Jean François Fernel (Latinized as Ioannes Fernelius; 1497 – 26 April 1558) was a French physician who introduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function. He was the first person to describe the spinal canal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Fernel has received more than 99,736 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Fernel is the 244th most popular astronomer (down from 192nd in 2019), the 2,969th most popular biography from France (down from 2,489th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jean Fernel ranks 244 out of 644. Before him are Johannes Schöner, Thomas Gold, Guillaume Le Gentil, George Mary Searle, Giovanni Battista Donati, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi. After him are Wilhelm von Biela, César-François Cassini de Thury, Oenopides, Vesto Slipher, William Wallace Campbell, and Svetlana Gerasimenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1497, Jean Fernel ranks 9. Before him are Beyhan Sultan, Pedro de Valdivia, Emperor Go-Nara, Mōri Motonari, Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Francesco Canova da Milano. After him is Stephen Gardiner. Among people deceased in 1558, Jean Fernel ranks 11. Before him are Eleanor of Austria, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Clément Janequin, Reginald Pole, Robert Recorde, and Johannes Bugenhagen. After him are Macropedius, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Anna van Egmont, Caupolicán, Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, and Cassandra Fedele.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Fernel ranks 2,969 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Champfleury (1821), N'Golo Kanté (1991), René Lesson (1794), Nicolas Coustou (1658), and Paul Émile Appell (1855). After him are André Salmon (1881), Jacques Babinet (1794), Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678), Marie-José Nat (1940), Marie Marvingt (1875), and Jules Armand Dufaure (1798).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jean Fernel ranks 22. Before him are Bernard Lyot (1897), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), and Guillaume Le Gentil (1725). After him are César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Charles Wolf (1827), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), and Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853).

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