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BELON, PIERRE (1517-1564)

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BELON, See also:PIERRE (1517-1564) , See also:French naturalist, was See also:born about 1517 near Le Mans (See also:Sarthe). He studied See also:medicine at See also:Paris, where he took the degree of See also:doctor, and then became a See also:pupil of the botanist See also:Valerius See also:Cordus (1515–1544) at See also:Wittenberg, with whom he travelled in See also:Germany. On his return to See also:France he was taken under the patronage of See also:Cardinal de See also:Tournon, who furnished him with means for undertaking an extensive scientific See also:journey. Starting in 1546, he travelled through See also:Greece, See also:Asia See also:Minor, See also:Egypt, See also:Arabia and See also:Palestine, and returned in 1549. A full See also:account of his travels, with illustrations, was published in 1553. Belon, who was highly favoured both by See also:Henry II. and by See also:Charles IX., was assassinated at Paris one evening in See also:April 1564, when coming through the Bois de See also:Boulogne. Besides the narrative of his travels he wrote several scientific See also:works of considerable value, particularly the Histoire naturelle See also:des estranges poissons (1551), De aquatilibus (1553), and L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux (1555), which entitle him to be regarded as one of the first workers in the See also:science of See also:comparative See also:anatomy.

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