Pierre Borel

Pierre Borel (* 1620 in Castres, † October 14, 1671 ) was a French physician and collector.

Life and work

Pierre Borel was probably the eldest son of Jacques Borel and Esther Martel. He was educated of the Huguenots at the Collège de Castres and studied medicine at the University of Montpellier. On May 14, 1643 Borel was awarded his doctorate at the Medical Fakzltät the University of Cahors as a doctor of medicine. From 1644 to 1653 he practiced as a doctor in his home town of Castres. In addition, collected Borel rarities, plants, antiques and minerals from Castres and environment. A catalog of his collection, he published 1645. Four years later appeared a to the history of the region and the local Roman inscriptions extended version.

End of 1653, Borel went to Paris and became a royal private physician ( Doctor ordinaire du Roi ) of Louis XIV, where he wore a collection of about 4000 manuscripts and books of Hermetic together, covering the 1654 he published another catalog. A year later, a Gallic- French dictionary. Borel studied reports on the telescope and named in his De vero telescopii inventore Zacharias Janssen as the first (1590 ) and Hans Lippershey as the second ( 1608) inventor of the telescope. He also described in the 1637 invented by Johannes Hevelius Polemoskop. 1656 was the release of 100 with the microscope vorgenommmener observations.

1657 Borel returned back to Castres and practiced there until his death. From 1657 to 1664 he was rector of the Collège de Castres. In August 1663 he married Esther Bonnafous.

Borel realized that it is a clouding of the eye lens in cataract. He recommended the use of concave mirrors of medical examination of the nose ( rhinoscopy ) and throat ( pharyngoscopy ). To him, the first description of a concussion is attributed.

Writings (selection )

  • Catalogue of raretés du cabinet de P. Borel. Castres 1645.
  • Les antiquitez, raretez, plantes, Mineraux etautres considérables choses de la ville et de Castres comté d' Albi. Arnauld Colomiez, Castres 1649 (online)
  • Dictionnaire des termes du vieux françois. Briasson, París 1650 ( online).
  • Historiarum et observationum medicophysicarum. Paris 1653 (online).
  • Bibliotheca chimica: seu, Catalogus Librorum philosophicorum hermeticorum. You Mesnil Charles & Thomas Jolly, Paris 1654; (Heidelberg 1656).
  • Trésor de recherches et d' antiquités gauloises et françaises. COURBE Augustin, Paris 1655 (online).
  • Carmina encomiastica, ac congratulatoria in Laudem Christianissimi Regis Ludouici XIV Augustissimæ Reginae Matris. Et Eminentissimi cardinalis Mazarini. N. Foucault, Paris 1654th
  • De vero telescopii inventore. A. Vlacq, 1655 (online).
  • Observationum microscopicarum centuria. A. Vlacq, 1656 (online).
  • Vitae Renati Cartesii, summi philosophical compendium. Paris 1656 (online).
  • Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralité of the moon. Geneva 1657 (online).
  • Hortus seu armamentarium simplicium, Mineralium, plantarum et animalium ad artem medicam utilium. Castris 1666 (online).
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