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Pierre Borel (Petrus Borellius) (ca. 1620 – 1671) was a French savant: a chemist
Chemist

A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
 (and reputed alchemist
Alchemy

Alchemy , a part of the Occult Tradition, is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties....
), physician, and botanist.

He concerned himself with an eclectic range of subjects: optics
Optics

Optics is the study of the behavior and properties of light including its optical phenomena with matter and its imaging by optical instruments....
, ancient history, philology and bibliography. His biographers have tended to deplore his spreading of himself over so many areas.

l was born in Castres. He became a doctor of medicine at the University of Montpellier
University of Montpellier

The University of Montpellier was a France university in Montpellier in the Languedoc-Roussillon r?gion in France of the south of France. Its present-day successor universities are the University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier 2 University and Paul Val?ry University, Montpellier III....
 in 1640.






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Pierre Borel (Petrus Borellius) (ca. 1620 – 1671) was a French savant: a chemist
Chemist

A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
 (and reputed alchemist
Alchemy

Alchemy , a part of the Occult Tradition, is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties....
), physician, and botanist.

He concerned himself with an eclectic range of subjects: optics
Optics

Optics is the study of the behavior and properties of light including its optical phenomena with matter and its imaging by optical instruments....
, ancient history, philology and bibliography. His biographers have tended to deplore his spreading of himself over so many areas.

Life

Borel was born in Castres. He became a doctor of medicine at the University of Montpellier
University of Montpellier

The University of Montpellier was a France university in Montpellier in the Languedoc-Roussillon r?gion in France of the south of France. Its present-day successor universities are the University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier 2 University and Paul Val?ry University, Montpellier III....
 in 1640. In 1654 he became physician to the King of France, Louis XIV.

In 1663 he married Esther de Bonnafous. In 1674 he became a member of the Académie française
Académie française

L'Acad?mie fran?aise, or the French Academy, is the pre-eminent France learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Acad?mie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to Louis XIII of France....
. He died in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
.

Works


  • Les antiquités de Castres, 1649
  • Bibliotheca chimica, 1654
  • Trésor de recherches et d'antiquités gauloises et françaises, 1655
  • Historiarium et observationum medico-physicarum centuriae II ;
  • De vero telescopii inventore, 1655.


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