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Article: Bernard of Verdun
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- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Bernard of Verdun
also known as
Bernardusde Virduno
(France,
fl
. latter part of the thirteenth century)
astronomy
.
Nothing is known with certainty about the life and career of Bernard of Verdun, except his place of origin (not necessarily the city on the Meuse), that he was a Franciscan, and that he was, professor in his order. It is possible that he is the Bernard who carried on a correspondance with the French scholar Nicolas of Lyra (
ca
. 1270
–
1349). Bernard
’
s contribution to medical astronomy is his
Tractatus super totam astrologiam
, most likely written in the late thirteenth century. It discusses a turquet similar to one described by Francon de Pologne in a manuscript ...