Lorenz Fries
His cartographic work continued that of Martin Waldseemüller in assimilating recent discoveries in the New World and Asia into the classical Ptolemaic framework.
[9][5]: 191 On the title page of the first edition of the “Spiegel der Arznei” in 1518 he called himself “from Colmar / Doctor of Philopsophy and Medicine”.
In July of the same year, he accepted a call to Freiburg im Üechtland, where he held the office of city physician for 8 months and where he met Agrippa von Nettesheim.
While in Strasbourg, he re-worked a number of the maps of Martin Waldseemüller, and prepared a revised edition of Ptolemy's Geography.
On February 28, 1528, Paracelsus, who had fled from Basel, wrote to Bonifacius Amerbach: "Phrusius de Colmaria optime valet, sumque optimus familiae et totam civitatem".
In it he noted in passing: "... Let me, God, live for a short time ..." Another foreword in the same edition was written on May 14, 1532, by Otto Brunfels.
The Arzneibuch by the Würzburg surgeon Ortolf von Baierland (1477) is worth mentioning,[39] also the Gart der Gesundheit of the Frankfurt city doctor Johann Wonnecke von Kaub (1485), the Buch der Cirurgia (1497), and the Kleines Destillierbuch (1500) and the Großes Destillierbuch (1512) of the Strasbourg surgeon Hieronymus Brunschwig.
Like Fries in his Spiegel der Arznei, Hieronymus Brunschwig also emphasized in his Kleines Destillierbuch that he had written his work to educate the sick and the "common paople".
The woodcut was not made specifically for the Mirror, but was a fugitive sheet, initially produced as a single broadsheet, and then published in the Feldtbuch der Wundartzney by Hans von Gersdorff in the same year.
This may well be the first published illustration of an actual dissection,[42] and the images of the brain are the earliest realistic anatomical diagrams of that organ.
He argued that Luther was ignorant in not understanding the difference between folk-beliefs, and the astrologers' rigorous study of planetary motions and the phases of the moon, and he asserted that such knowledge was essential for many human activities, including the practice of medicine.
He denied that astrology required any kind of spiritual intermediary - something that Luther identified as forbidden by the first commandment - but looked only to God and his works.
In his Carnival play Gouchmat (fools for love)[44] he casts Fries as the foolish doctor and astrologer, and ridicules some of his predictions.
He regarded the preference for Greek over Islamic writings as based on an emotional attachment to classical languages rather than on evidence.
[52] During his period in Strasbourg, Fries became involved in map production through his connection with Johann Grüninger, the publisher of Spiegel der Artzny.
[5]: 199 [59] Fries's final project for Grüninger was a reduction of Waldseemüller's Carta Marina Navigatoria, a Portolan style world map, with text in German rather than Latin.
[57]: 21 Fischer and von Wieser (1903) describe the Carta Marina as "crudely drawn and swarms with the most fantastic errors and misconceptions".
