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Johannes Magirus (c. 1560 – 1596) was a German physician and natural philosopher. He was born at Fritzlar about 1560; his background was Lutheran.[1] He studied at the University of Padua, and took a medical degree at the University of Marburg in 1585.[2]

Works

• Physiologiae Peripateticae libri sex (1597). This was a textbook treatment of Aristotelian philosophy, and was still in use 50 years later.[3] It was employed to teach physics in the early years of Harvard College.[4] Isaac Newton was introduced to natural philosophy by this work of Magirus and one of Daniel Stahl.[5] It used the works of: Hermolao Barbaro, Gasparo Contarini, Thomas Erastus, Philipp Melanchthon, Arcangelus Mercenarius, Francesco Patrizzi, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Jakob Schegk, Johannes Velcurio, Francesco Vimercato, and Jacopo Zabarella.[6]

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