Jan Marek Marci

Jan Marek Marci , in Latin Johannes Marcus Marci de Cronland , is a doctor, scientist and philosopher born the June 13rd 1595 with Lanškroun (Bohemia) and dead the April 10th 1677 with Prague. A crater of the hidden side of the the Moon bears its name.

Biography

Born in 1595 with Kronland (today Lanškroun) in Bohemia from a father administrator from goods, Jan Marci attended the school Jésuite of Jindřichův Hradec starting from 1608. He studies the Philosophie and the Théologie with Olomouc in order to become priest, formation which he gives up in 1618 to devote itself successfully to medicine with the Université Charles of Prague. He becomes doctor in 1626, then senior and finally vice-chancellor of the medical college.

He meets in 1638 at the time of a voyage to Rome the scholar Jesuit Athanasius Kircher with whom he will maintain a long friendship. This last initiates it with knowledge (time) Eastern writings, in particular of the Arab .

Jan Marci sets up and order a student's military faction at the time of the seat of Prague by the Swedish army in 1648. Anobli in 1554 for services rendered to the combat, it is seen granting the name of Johannes Marcus Marci de Cronland .

He was the personal doctor of the emperors Ferdinand III and Léopold I.

Work

Marci studied inter alia the collision of the bodies, the epilepsy and the refraction of the light. It was in possession of the Manuscrit of Voynich, which it vainly tried to translate.

Writings

Idearum operaticum idea (1636)
Of proportions motus seu controlled sphygmica (1639)
Thaumantias. Deque liber of arcu coelesti collorum apparentium will natura ortu and causis (1648)
Dissertatio of will natura iridis (1650)
Of longitudine seu differentiated inter duets meridianos (1650)
Labyrinthus, in quo via AD circuli quadraturam pluribus modis exhibetur (1654)
Philosophia vetus restituta (1662)
Othosophia seu philosophia impulsus universalis (1683)

See too

The Galileo Project (in English)
Biographies of the manuscript of Voynich (in English)

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