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Also known as Pierre Belon du Mans, Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus

French traveler, naturalist, writer and diplomat (1517-1564)

Person · Open Library

Born
1517?
Died
1564
Works
35

Top works

  • Les observations de plusieurs singularitez & choses memorables
  • Exoticorvm libri decem
  • Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables
  • P. Bellonii Cenomani De arboribus coniferis, resiniferis
  • Les remonstrances svr le defavlt dv labovr & culture des plantes, & de la cognoissance d'icelles

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Going deeper with convolutions

    · 2015 · cited 32,860x

  2. Classification of Surgical Complications

    · 2004 · cited 28,222x

  3. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,422x

  4. Outline of a Theory of Practice

    · 1977 · cited 19,096x

  5. Testing for a unit root in time series regression

    · 1988 · cited 12,653x

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Key facts

Born
1517, Souletière near Cérans-Foulletourte , France
Died
April 1564 (1564-04-00) (aged 46–47) , Paris, France
Fields
Ichthyology Natural history

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Works in European collections

15 objects attributed to Pierre Belon, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, architecture and Egyptology. He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon du Mans, or, in the Latin in which his works appeared, as Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (known for Pavlov's dogs) called him the "prophet of comparative anatomy".

Life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pierre Belon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.