Pierre Belon | |
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 Pierre Belon | |
| Born | 1517 Souletière near Cérans-Foulletourte |
| Died | April 1564 Paris |
| Nationality | French |
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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".[1]
- ^ Wong, M. (1970). "Belon, Pierre". In C.C. Gillispie (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's sons. pp. 595–596. ISBN 9780684101149.