French scholar, physician and poet (1617–1687)
Pierre Petit (French:[pəti]; 1617–1687) was a French scholar,physician,poet andLatin writer.
Born atParis, Petit studied medicine atMontpellier, where he took the degree ofMD, though he did not practice medicine afterwards. Returning to Paris, he resided for some time with the presidentLamoignon, as tutor to his sons, and afterwards as a literary companion withAymar de Nicolai, first president of thechamber of accounts. He died shortly after taking a wife.[1]
His most important works are:[2]
- An Elegy upon the Death of Gabriel Naudé. 1653.
- De Motu Animalium Spontaneo, liber unus. 1660, 8vo.
- De Extensione Animæ et Rerum Incorporearum Natura, libri duo. 1665.
- Epistolae Apologetica; A. Menjoti de variis Sectis Amplectendis examen: ad Medicos Parisienses, Autore Adriano Scauro, D.M. 1666, 4to.
- Apologia pro genuitate Fragmenti Satyrici Petroniani. 1666, 8vo.
Under thepseudonym Marinus Statileus:
- De nova Curandorum Morborum Ratione per Transfusionem Sanguinis. 1667, 4to. In which he objects to the then fashionable speculation relative to the cure of diseases byblood transfusion.
Under the pseudonym Euthyphron:
- Miscellanearum Observationum, libri iv. Utrecht, 1683, 8vo
- Selectorum Poematum, liber ii. accessit Dissertatio de Furore Poetico. Paris, 1688, 8vo.
- De Amazonibus, Dissertatio. Paris, 1685, 12mo. An attempt to prove, from medals and monuments, that a race ofamazons existed.
- De Natura et Moribus Anthropophagorum, Dissertatio. Utrecht, 1688, 8vo.
He also wrote, under his own name:
- Gelliani problematis explicatio, sive de continentia Alexandri Magni, et Publii Scipionis Africani. Dialogus. Paris, 1668, 12mo.
Within the dialogue, which he narrates, he appears as Euthyphro.
In 1726, hisCommentary on the first three books ofAretaeus appeared together withLife of Petit byMaittaire.
- ^John Gorton, (1835),A General Biographical Dictionary
- ^Robert Watt, (1824),Bibliotheca Britannica; or, A general index to British and foreign literature, page 749
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