Jean Ruel
Jean Ruel (1474 – 24 September 1537), also known as Jean Ruelle or Ioannes Ruellius in its Latinised form, was a French physician and botanist noted for the 1536 publication in Paris of ''De Natura Stirpium'', a Renaissance treatise on botany.Ruel was born in Soissons. He was self-taught in Greek and Latin, and studied medicine, graduating in 1508, or, according to other sources in 1502. In 1509 he became physician to Francis I, devoted himself at the same time to a study of botany and pharmacology. He was a professor at the University of Paris, and a large part of his academic career was given to an analysis of Dioscorides' [http://www.botanicus.org/title/b13165008 ''De Materia Medica''], of which he published a Latin translation in 1516. Ruel's three-volume ''De Natura Stirpium'', which was published without illustrations, was intended partly as a gloss to the ancient writers. In it he described in great detail not only the habit and habitat, but also the smell and taste of each plant, producing a list in French of a large number of plant names.
Although some of his works were compilations or translations of previous authors, they represent the first attempt to popularise botany. His 1530 book ''Hippiatrika'' or ''Veterinariae medicinae'', commissioned by Francis I, is a Latin collation of all that was written in Greek of Veterinary Medicine. Ruel also produced anatomical fugitive sheets of a man and woman in 1539. These sheets were constructed of hinged layers which could be lifted so that [http://film.wellcome.ac.uk:15151/mediaplayer.html?fug_288-4&pw=524ph=600 internal human anatomy] was revealed. Ruell translated a large number of works into Latin, such as the last two volumes of Joannes Actuarius' ''De Methodo Medendi'', which he published under the title ''De Medicamentorum Compositione'' in 1539.
After the death of Ruel's wife, Étienne de Poncher the Bishop of Paris, appointed Ruel as canon at Notre Dame de Paris on 12 December 1526, enabling him to pursue his studies. Ruel died in Paris and was buried in Notre-Dame. Charles Plumier, the noted Marseilles botanist named the genus ''Ruellia'' in his honour.
In 1753, botanist Carl Linnaeus published in his book Species Plantarum ''Ruellia'', a genus of flowering plants commonly known as ''ruellias'' or ''wild petunias'', in the Acanthaceaefamily and the name honours Jean Ruel. Then in 1889, botanist C.B.Clarke published ''Ruelliopsis'', a genus of flowering plants from South Africa belonging to the family Acanthaceae and whose name also honours Jean Ruel. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by FrançoisE Dufrasne, Mara Lucchetti, Anandi Martin, Jean Ruelle, Patrick GoubauGet full text
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4by Leïla Belkhir, Carole Seguin-Devaux, Laure Elens, Caroline Pauly, Nicolas Gengler, Serge Schneider, Jean Ruelle, Vincent Haufroid, Bernard VandercamGet full text
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5by Chris Verhofstede, Katrien Fransen, Annelies Van Den Heuvel, Kristel Van Laethem, Jean Ruelle, Ellen Vancutsem, Karolien Stoffels, Sigi Van den Wijngaert, Marie-Luce Delforge, Dolores Vaira, Laura Hebberecht, Marlies Schauvliege, Virginie Mortier, Kenny Dauwe, Steven CallensGet full text
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6by Ward De Spiegelaere, Jan Philippé, Karen Vervisch, Chris Verhofstede, Eva Malatinkova, Maja Kiselinova, Wim Trypsteen, Pawel Bonczkowski, Dirk Vogelaers, Steven Callens, Jean Ruelle, Kabamba Kabeya, Stephane De Wit, Petra Van Acker, Vicky Van Sandt, Marie-Paule Emonds, Paul Coucke, Erica Sermijn, Linos VandekerckhoveGet full text
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7by Lore Vinken, Katrien Fransen, Lize Cuypers, Ivailo Alexiev, Claudia Balotta, Laurent Debaisieux, Carole Seguin-Devaux, Sergio García Ribas, Perpétua Gomes, Perpétua Gomes, Francesca Incardona, Rolf Kaiser, Jean Ruelle, Murat Sayan, Murat Sayan, Simona Paraschiv, Roger Paredes, Martine Peeters, Anders Sönnerborg, Ellen Vancutsem, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Sigi Van den Wijngaert, Marc Van Ranst, Marc Van Ranst, Chris Verhofstede, Tanja Stadler, Tanja Stadler, Philippe Lemey, Kristel Van Laethem, Kristel Van LaethemGet full text
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