At p. 200 of André Pezzani’s “La Pluralité des Existences de l’Ame,” Paris, 1866, he mentions that Cardinal Nicolas De Cusa admits the roundness of the earth, the plurality of worlds, etc.
For antipodes and roundness of the earth see, likewise: Libri, “Hist. des Sc. Mathém.,” Vol. II. pp. 178, 182, note; Ch. W. Shields, “The Final Philosophy,” New York, 1877, p. 46; “Le Journal des Sçavans,” Vol. XXXVI for 1707, p. 510, wherein it is said that Plutarch denied the antipodes, as did both Lactantius and Saint Augustine. Consult, also, the volumes of “Le Journal des Sçavans” for the years 1710 and 1721.
References.—Dupin (André M. J. J.), “Biblioth. des Auteurs Eccles.,” Vol. I. p. 295; Celier (Léonce), “Hist. des Auteurs Sacrés,” Vol. III. p. 387; Schöll (Carl), “Hist. de la Lit. Romaine,” Vol. IV. p. 26; “Biog. Gén.,” Vol. XXVIII. pp. 611–620; ninth “Encycl. Brit.,” Vol. XIV. pp. 195–196; Lenain de Tillemont, “Hist. Eccles.,” Vol. VI; Fleury (Claude), “Historia Ecclesiastica” (“The Eccles. History from A.D. 400 to A.D. 456”), Vol. I; “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” by Edward Gibbon (Milman), Philad. 1880, Vol. II. p. 248 note; “Anti-Nicene Christian Library,” edited by Drs. Roberts and Donaldson.
Lusitanus, Amatus—Joan Rodrigo Amato—Portuguese physician (1511–1568), is author of several medical essays wherein he advocates the views of Galen and of the Arabian School. His most important work is “Curationum medicinalium centuriæ septem,” and is so named because it is divided into seven parts, each containing a hundred different observations and reports on medical cures, etc. In De Magnete, Book I. chap. i., Gilbert names him amongst authors, like Antonius Musae Brasavolus and Joannes Baptista Montanus, who tell of the efficacy of the loadstone in medicine.
References.—“Thesaurus Literaturæ Botanicæ,” Lipsiæ, 1851, pp. 334–335; Larousse, “Dict. Univ.,” Vol. X. p. 796; “Dict. Hist. de la Médecine,” par N. F. J. Eloy, Mons, 1778, Vol. I. pp. 106–107.
Lynschoten—Linschooten—Jan Huygan van—who, with Richard Hakluyt, we find mentioned by Edward Wright in his Address “to the most learned Mr. William Gilbert,” was a celebrated Dutch navigator (1563–1611) who accompanied Vicente Fonseca, Archbishop of Goa, upon his Eastern trip and first published a relation thereof during the year 1601. He is the author, also, of “Itinerario Voyage ofte Schipvært,” Amsterdam, 1596, 1604, 1605, 1623, and “Itinerarium, ofte Schipvært,” Amsterdam, 1614.
References.—Lautz (G.), “Biog. de J. H. Van L.,” Amst., 1845; Du Boys (Pierre), “Vies des Gouverneurs,” p. 4; “La Grande Encycl.,” Vol. XXII. p. 299; Larousse, “Dict. Univ.,” Vol. X. p. 542; “Biog. Générale,” Vol. XXXI. p. 303.
Machometes Aractensis. See [Albategnius].
Marbodeus Gallus, surnamed Pelliciarius, who is briefly mentioned twice by Gilbert in De Magnete, Book I. chap. i., was a French writer, son of a merchant (Marbode, Marbœuf) who finally became Bishop of Rennes in 1081, and died at Angers in 1123–1125. He is best known by his poetical works, which were first published in 1524. As has already been said, Marbodeus is supposed to have used the manuscript of Evax-Euace—to make up his own book on precious stones. The latter work is alluded to by J. B. Hauréau in the second of his articles on the Latin MSS. of the Palatine—“Codices Palatini Bibliothecæ Vaticanæ”—wherein the first line is quoted:
“Evax, rex Arabum, fertur scripisse Neroni”