First Years
The origins of this anatomist are vague. He was probably born in 1478 in Loeuilly, a small town near Amiens,the seventh in a family of fifteen. His father had been a weaver. At a young age he studied learnt Greek with Hermonymus of Sparta and Janus Lascaris, Hebrew with Vatable and mathematics with Le Fevre, and gradually became a leading figure in that Humanistic movement in Paris, where he was famous for its excellent knowledge of these disciplines.
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