Jean Taisnier

Jean Taisnier (Johannes Taisnerius) was born with Ath, in Belgium about 1508 and died in Cologne, Germany in 1559.

Biography

Jean Taisnier studied initially arts and sciences before entering the orders.

From 1530 to 1550, he was tutor at the court of Charles Quint which he accompanied in Tunis in 1535 and later in Italy. He travelled to Italy with the imperial court. He on the occasion to study in the Italian academies with Rome, Bologna and Padoue. It is there that it was familiarized with the Chiromancie. With died from Charles, it was withdrawn in Cologne. It written there in 1562 its Opus matematicum ( Opus mathematicum octo libros complectens innumeris propemodum figuris idealibus manum and physiognomiae, aliisque adornatum, unintermitting quorum sex priores libri absolutissimae chieromantiae theoricam, praxim, doctrinam, artem, & experientiam verissimam ), compilation of 8 books on the Chiromancy, the Astrology and the Physiology. It is undoubtedly about a Plagiat, because Taisnier presents, like its personal works, the Epistola of magnete of Pierre de Maricourt and a Traité the fall of the bodies by Gianbattista Benedetti. Taisner described there a Perpetual motion magnetic being composed of a slope, a stone of Magnet and of an iron ball. Pierre de Maricourt had already described such a system based on the force of the stone of magnet.

One him atribue also curious science or treated chyromancie, recueilly of the largest autheurs who treated this matter, & more exactly research than it was cy-in front of by no other . This remarkable treaty of chiromancy is illustrated of 90 boards with nearly 1300 figures of conformations of the lines of the hand.

In 1559, year of its death, Of usu sphaerae materialis actenus ab bus philosophis, & matematicis magno studiorosum incommodo neglecto nunc vero in lucem tarditio is a treaty of Astronomie and Mathématiques.

Taisnier was also an accomplished scientist of his time, a lawyer, a doctor, a mathematician and a philosopher. He wrote at least a book on the Astrologie (with being known that the Astronomie and the Astrologie were interdependent at that time. It is necessary to await the XVIII {{E}} century so that the scientific knowledge on cosmos is distinguished from imagination of interpretations) and of the treaties on various scientific topics, such as the properties of the magnets, the instruments of astronomy or the Planisphère. He is known to have made various scientific experiments and technological. Its voyages in Europe, Africa, Asia and even in America, its knowledge in sciences and arts occult make of it an excellent example of the ideal man of the Renaissance.

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