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Pierre Borel
Pierre Borel
	Portrait of Pierre Borel by Jacques Pauthe [fr]
Born	c. 1620; Castres
Died	1671 (aged 50–51); Paris, France
Occupations	Chemist; alchemist; physician; botanist;

Pierre Borel (Latin: Petrus Borellius; c. 1620 – 1671) was a French chemist, alchemist, physician, and botanist.

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Borel was born in Castres c. 1620. He became a doctor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in 1640. In 1654, he became physician to the King of France, Louis XIV.^[1]

In 1663, he married Esther de Bonnafous. In 1674, he became a member of the Académie française. He died in Paris in 1671.^[1]

He concerned himself with an eclectic range of subjects such as optics, ancient history, philology, and bibliography.

Borel appears in the novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft, where he is represented as a necromancer. The novel begins with a quote from him.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Farber, Eduard (1970–1980). "Borel, Pierre". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 305–306. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
^ Joshi, S. T.; Schultz, David E. (2001). An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313315787.

Marie-Rose Carré, A Man between Two Worlds: Pierre Borel and His Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralité des mondes of 1657, Isis, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Sep., 1974), pp. 322–335
Pierre Chabbert, Pierre Borel (1620 ?-1671), Revue d’histoire des sciences 21 (1968), 303-43.

Pierre Borel
Portrait of Pierre Borel by Jacques Pauthe [fr]
Born	c. 1620 Castres
Died	1671 (aged 50–51) Paris, France
Occupations	Chemist alchemist physician botanist