Joseph Duchesne or du Chesne (Quercetan, Latin Josephus Quercetanus) (c. 1544, Lectoure – 1609) was a French physician. A follower of Paracelsus, he is now remembered for important if transitional alchemical theories. He called sugar toxic, saying: “Under its whiteness, sugar hides a great blackness.” [1]
Duchesne was born around 1544 in Lectoure, Armagnac and studied at Montpellier, and then at Basel, where he received a medical diploma in 1573. During the 1570s at Lyon, he married Anne Trie[2] the granddaughter of Guillaume Budé, and became a Calvinist convert. He went into medical practice and became physician to Francis, Duke of Anjou.
He left Lyon in 1580 for Kassel in Hesse, and moved on to Geneva, where in 1584 he received citizenship. Duchesne was elected to the Council of Two Hundred in 1587, and undertook diplomatic missions to Bern, Basel, Schaffhausen and Zürich in the years 1589 to 1596. In 1594 he became a member of the Council of Sixty.
1576 : Sclopetarius–On wounds made by muskets and similar weapons
1603 : De priscorum philosophorum verae medicinae material
1604 : Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac therapeusi
1606 : Tetras gravissimorum totius capitis affectuum, Marburg: Paulus Egenolphus, 1606.
1607 : Pharmacopea dogmaticorum
(in Italian)La farmacopea overo antidotario riformato del signore Giuseppe Quercetano…, translated by Giacomo Ferrari. Venice, 1619
(in French)La pharmacopée des dogmatiques, 2nd ed. with emendations. Rouen: Corneille Pitreson, 1639
1619 : Le Ricchezze della riformata Farmacopea del Giuseppe Quercetano. Nouamente di Favella Latina traportata in Italiana da Giacomo Ferrari - Venice: Guerigli, 1619.
Hirai, Hiro (2010). “The World-Spirit and Quintessence in the Chymical Philosophy of Joseph Du Chesne,” in Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1450–1750), ed. Miguel Lopez-Perez et al. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 247–261.
Thomas, Joseph (1892), Universal pronouncing dictionary of biography and mythology (Aa, van der – Hyperius), vol. 1, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, p. 797
Westfall, Richard S. (1995), "Duchesne [Quercetanus], Joseph", Galileo Project page
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Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries High resolution images of works by and/or portraits of Joseph Duchesne in .jpg and .tiff format.
January 01, 1970
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