page_title: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc / Works
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Buste de Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc situé place de l'Université à Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, France)
context_page_description: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name Peirescius, was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists, and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. His research included a determination of the difference in longitude of various locations in Europe, around the Mediterranean, and in North Africa.
context_section_description: Peiresc's works include:
  Histoire abrégée de Provence
  Lettres à Malherbe (1606–1628)
  Traitez des droits et des libertés de l'Eglise gallicane (1639)
  Vita Peireskii (1641)
  Mémoires
  Bulletin Rubens
  Notes inédites de Peiresc sur quelques points d'histoire naturelle
caption: Bust of Peiresc in Aix-en-Provence
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