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PETER OF MARICOURT (13th century)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER OF MARICOURT (13th See also:century) , a See also:French savant, to whom his See also:disciple, See also:Roger See also:Bacon, pays the highest See also:tribute in his See also:opus tertium and other See also:works. According to Bacon he was a recluse who devoted himself to the study of nature, was able to See also:work metals, invented See also:armour and assisted St See also:Louis in one of his expeditions more than his whole See also:army. According to Emile See also:Charles (Roger Bacon sa See also:vie, ses ouvrages, ses doctrines, 1861), Peter of Maricourt is the See also:Pierre Peregrin (or Merin) de Maricourt (Meharicourt in See also:Picardy), known also as Petrus Peregrinus of Picardy, one of whose letters, De magnete, is partly reproduced in Libri's Mist. See also:des sciences mathematiques en Italie (1838), ii. 70-71, 487-505.

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