Talk:Jean Fernel

Monalosphaerium

The "subtitle" given for this work is garbled. An image of the 1526 title-page may be seen at

http://books.google.com/books?id=t243AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=monalosphaerium&source=web&ots=JUgMs3SLdG&sig=fanca4gBayshKeQCEv2KUVldVto&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA15,M1 .

Here (as in other citations of the work) it is described as being "in four parts" (partibus constans quatuor). The words generalis horarij et structuram et usum are from the description of the first part-- and incidentally it is horarij, that is horarii, not "horaril".

Fernel's "Monalosphaerium" seems in fact to have been genus astrolabii, "a sort of astrolabe", but those words do not seem to have formed a part of the title.

I propose editing accordingly...

Mjhrynick (talk) 02:40, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Clermont!

"Claremont" is a very unlikely name for a French city. I suggest this is an error (already present in the source quoted).

A better candidate would be "Clermont, Oise" (there was a college called "Jean Fernel" there). JmCor (talk) 03:50, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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This is a very good point!
Why has not anybody followed suite yet?
Furthermore, Fernel studying in Montdidier has been disputed and seems unlikely -I deleted this mention-.
If a more accurate one could not be found, should we delete the erroneous reference and correct this statement?
Reputed sources in English are very indirect and may use obsolete work. The best references on Fernel's life are in Latin and French: (wikidata).
The full name at the time was Clermont-en-Beauvoisis = Clermont-en-Beauvaisis = Clermont, Oise or in Latin Claromontano-Bellovacus.
BTW: there is still a Collège = Middle School in Clermont, Oise, though it moved to a new building a decade ago.
Market1G (talk) 16:54, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Died and buried in Paris

Fernel's wife died in Fontainebleau but he died soon afterwards in Paris where he was buried (Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie). Market1G (talk) 23:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)