(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 subterraneus anatoma*, which was his first production, and published in 1619. Upon his return to his patron the bishop, he contracted an attachment to 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 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.

(John), a very learned Frenchman, born at Blois, of Protestant parents, in 1591; but converted by cardinal du Perron to the catholic religion. He published, in 1626, some Exercitations upon the original of patriarchs and primates, and the ancient usage of ecclesiastical censures; dedicated to pope Urban VIII. In 1628 he undertook the edition of the Septuagint Bible, with Nobilius's version; and placed a preface before it, in which he treats of the authority of the Septuagint, and prefers the version in the edition made at Rome by order of Sixtus V., to the present Hebrew text, which he affirms has been corrupted by the Jews. About the same time he gave a French history of the deliverance of the church by the emperor Constantine; and of the temporal greatness conferred on the Roman church by the kings of France. He afterwards published Exercitations upon the Samaritan Pentateuch; and took the care of the Samaritan Pentateuch, for the Polyglot then preparing at Paris. He was greatly careful at Rome; where, after living nine years, at the invitation of cardinal Barini, Morinus barini, he was recalled by cardinal Richlieu, and died at Paris in 1659. His works are very numerous; and some of them as much valued by Protestants as Papists for the oriental learning they contain.