MORIN (John Baptist), physician and regius professor of mathematics at Paris, was born at Villefranche in Beaujolais, in 1583. After commencing doctor at Avignon, he went to Paris, and lived with Claude Dormi bishop of Boulogne, who sent him to examine the mines of Hungary; and thereby gave occasion to his Mundus sublunari anatomia, which was his first production, and published in 1619. Upon his return to his patron the bishop, he contracted an attachment to
Morin. judicial astrology, concerning which he furnished the world with many ridiculous stories, and wrote a great number of books not worth enumerating. He died in 1656, before he had finished the favourite labour of his life, which was his Astrologia Gallica. Louisa Maria de Gonzaga queen of Poland gave 2000 crowns to carry on the edition, at the recommendation of one of her secretaries, who was a lover of astrology; and it appeared at the Hague in 1661, in one vol. folio, with two dedications, one to Jesus Christ, and another to the queen of Poland.