Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1 December 1580 – 24 June 1637), often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name, Peirescius, was a French...

Peiresc may refer to: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637), French astronomer, antiquary and savant 19226 Peiresc, an outer main-belt asteroid named...

substantial leaves and non-succulent stems. The genus is named after Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, a 16th-century French botanist. The genus was more widely...

manner. In 1637, after a period of time in Aix-en-Provence with Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, he returned to Paris, where he adopted an idiosyncratic technique...

Nebula, now known to be an H II region, was observed in 1610 by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc by telescope, the first such object discovered. The regions...

observed by Arabic and Chinese astronomers in 1054. In 1610, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc discovered the Orion Nebula using a telescope. This nebula...

toward the northern rim. The crater was named in 1935 after Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637), the French astronomer, antiquary and savant. By...

of Emperor Rudolf II. In the biography of French scientist Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, it is related that in 1606 he visited a widow in Leuven who...

of the invention. 1610: The Orion Nebula is identified by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc of France. 1610: Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius observe Jupiter's...

John Evelyn noted "was first discovered by the incomparable Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, which a mule had cropt from a wild shrub." In the late 17th...

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The manuscript of this belonged to Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. Fragmenta Ursiniana The fragments of the first 34 books, preserved...

from Damascus, Syria, into France by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc at around the same time. While the de Peiresc import from Syria is corroborated by...

illustrate the proper behaviour, Leibniz gives an example of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and Pierre Gassendi, who performed astronomical observations...

1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Miller, Peter N. (2000). Peiresc's Europe: learning and virtue in the seventeenth century. New Haven: Yale...

Descartes, Étienne Pascal, Pierre Petit, Gilles de Roberval, Thomas Hobbes, and Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. He corresponded with Giovanni Doni, Jacques...

authority on the thought and influence of the French savant, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637). From 1998 to 2001, he was an assistant professor...

with superstition, often as demonstrations of godly power, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was one of the few who proposed natural causes;...

Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (died 1644) December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died 1637) Peter Crüger, German polymath...

important task of diplomats. He relied on his friendship with Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc to get information on political developments in France. Between...

sunspots through a telescope The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. Diphtheria epidemic in Naples, during which Marco Aurelio...

François Mauriceau, French obstetrician (died 1709) June 24 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (born 1580) May 19 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch...

was then brought to Saint-Chapelle in 1379. The antiquary Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, who saw the gem in 1620, was the first modern to realize the...

ending -opsis meaning 'appearance'. Pereskia is named after Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, a 16th-century French botanist. Some sources have used the...

astronomers, such as Thomas Harriot, Joseph Gaultier de la Vatelle, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, and Simon Marius, published their confirmation of the...

Friend with Jacques Dupuy and Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, he was appointed, thanks to another friend the president De Bellièvre, historiographer of...

Narssius, Dutch physician and poet (d. 1637) December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637) December 4 Samuel Argall, English...

found in an Ethiopic (Ge'ez) language translation there, and Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc bought a book that was claimed to be identical to the one quoted...

another sultan retakes it. November 26 – French astronomers Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and Joseph Gaultier make the first detailed observations of...

Europe as early as the 8th century CE. In the 16th century, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc unsuccessfully attempted to establish an interlibrary loan...

on "Medicean Stars", in honor of Cosimo II de' Medici. The French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc suggested individual names from the Medici...