page_title: Physician writer
section_title: 15th century
hierarchical_section_title: Physician writer / 15th century
caption_attribution_description: PORTRAIT PRESUME DU MEDECIN PARACELSE (1493-1541)une des nombreuses copies anomymes du XVIIe siècle
context_page_description: Physician writers are physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine.
  The following is a partial list of physician-writers by historic epoch or century in which the author was born, arranged in alphabetical order.
context_section_description: Adam of Łowicz (also known as Adamus Polonus; died 1514) was a professor of medicine at Poland's Kraków Academy, its rector in 1510–11, royal court physician, a humanist, writer and philosopher.
  Biernat of Lublin (1465–1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist and physician.  He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones.
  Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist, best known for his epoch-making book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
  Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius; 1478–1553) Italian scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist; as a physician, he proposed ideas very similar to the germ theory of disease.
  Paracelsus (1493–1541) Swiss-born botanist, alchemist, occultist.
  François Rabelais (1483–1553) French satirist and author of The Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel.
caption: Paracelsus
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