Pierre Petit (scholar)

Pierre Petit (* 1617 in Paris, † 1687 ) was a French poet, philologist ( Latinist ) and physician. He also published under the pen name Marinus Statileus and Euthyphro.

Petit studied and graduated in medicine at the University of Montpellier. He did not practice the profession of a doctor but from, but devoted himself to literature and science in Paris, supported by wealthy patrons, first President of the Parliament Guillaume de Lamoignon and then the president of Financial Supervision ( Chambre des Comptes ) Aymar de Nicolai.

He was an opponent of René Descartes and Cartesianism, against whom he wrote De Motu Animalium Spontaneo 1660.

He died the same year in which he married. His death speech wrote his friend, the Abbé Nicaise ( Elogium et tumulus Petri Petiti, 1687 ).

Writings

Under his own name:

• Élégie sur la mort de Gabriel Naudé, 1653
• De Motu Animalium Spontaneo, 1660
• Epistolae Apologetica; A. Menjoti de variis Sectis Amplectendis exam: ad Medicos Parisienses, Autore Adriano Sauro, DM, 1666
• Apologia pro genuitate Fragmenti Satyrici Petroniani, 1666
• Gelliani problematis explicatio, sive de Alexandri Magni continentia, et Publii Scipionis Africani. Dialogus, Paris, 1668
• Commentaire sur les trois premiers livres d' Arétée, 1726 ( with biography of Petit )

As Marinus Statileus:

• De nova Curandorum Morborum Ratione by Transfusionem Sanguinis, 1667, where he speaks out against blood transfusion as a therapy

As Euthyphro:

• Miscellanearum observationum, Utrecht 1683
• De Amazonibus, dissertations, Paris 1685, Leiden 1712 (evidence of the existence of the Amazons )
• Traité historique sur les amazones, Leiden 1718
• De Natura et Moribus Anthropophagorum, dissertations, Utrecht, 1688

• Frenchman
• Author
• Born in 1617
• Died in 1687
• Man