Francis Fabricius

Francis Fabricius (c. 1510–1572) was a physician and humanist from the Low Countries. Fabricius was born in Roermond around 1510 and studied the humanities in Cologne, where he excelled at Latin and Greek.[1] He went on to study medicine and in 1533 was established as a physician in Deventer. From 1545 to 1552 he was based in Aachen, where he studied the medicinal properties of the thermal springs. He died in 1572.[2]

Works
  • Thermae aquenses, sive de Balneorum naturalium (Cologne, Jaspar Gennepaeus, 1546). Reprinted 1564, 1617.
    • In Dutch as Van den warmen baden, ende in sunderheyt den genen die tot Aken sijn (Maastricht, Jacob Bathen, 1552).[3]
gollark: I mean, monad implies the other two, but still.
gollark: In fact, lists are functors, applicatives and monads.
gollark: `join` is essentially `flatten`, and `fmap` is like `map` on lists.
gollark: Technically functors have `fmap`, actually.
gollark: Functor: has `map`, lets you run an `a → b` over a `f a` to get a `f b`Applicative: has `<*>`, lets you run a `f (a → b)` over a `f a` to get a `f b` and `pure`, which lets you get a `f a` from an `a`Monad: has `join`, which does `f (f a)) → f a` or alternately `bind`, which is `f a → (a → f b) → f b`.

References
  1. J.-J. Thonissen, "Fabricius (François)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 6 (Brussels, 1878), 819-820.
  2. "Fabricius, François", in Dictionnaire des sciences médicales: biographie médicale, vol. 4 (Paris, C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1821), p. 92. On Google Books.
  3. Van den warmen baden on Google Books.
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