About Adrian l'Alemant
Lived 1527 – 1559 (aged 31–32). Adrian l'Alemant was a physician.
Adrian l'Alemant (15271559) was a French author, translator, and medic.
Life l'Alemant was born in Sorcy-sur-Meuse in 1527. He died in Paris in 1559. By 1553, he was a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Paris.
Works
l'Alemant wrote or translated a number of books on medicine and philosophy:
De optimo genere disputandi libri III (1546) Ars Parva (1549) Dialectique en françois pour les barbiers et les chirurgiens (1553) Hippocratis medicorum omnium principis de flatibus liber (1557) De aere, aquis, & locis, liber olim mancus, nunc integer: qui Galeno, De habitationibus, & aquis, & temporibus & regionibus (1557)
The Dialectique is one of the earliest known vernacular French books on dialectic, or logic, predating Petrus Ramus's Dialectique by two years.
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Who was Adrian l'Alemant?
French physician (1527-1559)
When was Adrian l'Alemant born?
Adrian l'Alemant was born in 1527 in Sorcy.
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Adrian l'Alemant died in 1559 in Paris.
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Adrian l'Alemant was a physician.
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