Pierre Belon
Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller,
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. The Russian physiologist
Ivan Pavlov (known for
Pavlov's dogs) called him the "prophet of comparative anatomy".
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