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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

(mathematician) Ernest Mouchez Charles Nordmann André Patry Jean-Claude Pecker Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc Julien Peridier Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin Frédéric...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

intellectual Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, who was also a great friend of Rubens, became acquainted with Finson and was an admirer of his work. Peiresc was...

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

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

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

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

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

to the vase is in a letter of 1601 from the French scholar Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc to the painter Peter Paul Rubens, where it is recorded as in...

Provence Barthélemy d'Eyck (c. 1420 – after 1470), painter Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637), scientist best known for his correspondence Jean...

the Orion Nebula is generally credited to French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, on November 26, 1610, when he made a record of observing it...

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