About William of Marseille
William of Marseille was an English translator, astrologer and physician.
William of Marseille was a thirteenth-century English academic, teaching in France. He is known for the medical-astrological treatise De urina non visa. The method is to use a horoscope to deduce properties of the urine of a patient for diagnosis, when the urine itself cannot be obtained. This book was still used at the University of Bologna in 1405.
Works From Liste lateinischer Autoren und anonymer Werke des 13. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1170-1320) Astrologia De urina non visa (1219) Tabula de stellis fixis Tractatus de meteoris (c. 1230)
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Who was William of Marseille?
13th-century medical astrologer
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William of Marseille died in 1201.
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William of Marseille was a translator, astrologer and physician.
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William of Marseille was English.
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