Facts: - death place: paris - caption: pierre belon - fields: ichthyology natural history - death date: 1564 - birth date: 1517 - name: pierre belon - nationality: french - image: belon pierre 1517-1564 . jpg - birth place: souletiere near cerans-foulletourte Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of pierre belon .
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pierre belon -lrb- 1517 -- 1564 -rrb- was a french explorer , naturalist , writer and diplomat .like many others of the renaissance period , he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology , ornithology , botany , comparative anatomy , architecture and egyptology .he is sometimes known as pierre belon du mans , or , in the latin in which his works appeared , as petrus bellonius cenomanus .ivan pavlov called him the '' prophet of comparative anatomy '' .