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Johann Chrysostom Magnenus

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Johann Chrysostom Magnenus (Jean Chrysostôme Magnen) (fl. 1645) was a French physician and advocate of atomism.

Life

He was born at Luxeuil.[1] He took a medical degree at the University of Dôle.[2] He joined the medical faculty at the University of Pavia, where he published his scientific work Democritus reviviscens.

Title page of Democritus reviviscens (1646).
  1. ^ http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/magnenus.html
  2. ^ Francesco Bottin, Models of the History of Philosophy: From its origins in the Renaissance to the "historia philosophica" (1993), p. 133; Google Books.
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