Henricus Regius

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<p>Regius was born in <a href="/facts/Utrecht_(city)/49YgvgXJ">Utrecht</a>, and was also known by his birth name, <i>Hendrik de Roy</i>, or by its French rendering, <i>Henri Le Roy</i>.  He studied <a href="/facts/Liberal_arts/YtUI0rgu">liberal arts</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Franeker/Y8dxzgp6">University of Franeker</a> and medicine at <a href="/facts/Groningen_University/j7AbDh6z">Groningen University</a>, <a href="/facts/Leiden_University/MqnmnTtF">Leiden University</a>, and subsequently at the Universities of <a href="/facts/University_of_Montpellier/3S5tWSeW">Montpellier</a> and <a href="/facts/University_of_Padua/dDhWkTKW">Padua</a>.
</p><p>He was a vocal proponent of <a href="/facts/Cartesianism/N2ujCbyL">Cartesianism</a>, and corresponded frequently with <a href="/facts/Ren%25C3%25A9_Descartes/ohqj6DMf">René Descartes</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> He was the author of a textbook of natural philosophy, <i>Fundamenta Physices</i>.
</p><p>He died in Utrecht.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/88">The Correspondence between Descartes and Henricus Regius</a> (in French, with commentary in English)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Desmond_Clarke/365eMEow">Clarke, Desmond</a>. <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/henricus-regius/">"Henricus Regius"</a>. In <a href="/facts/Edward_N._Zalta/U8JxHaaA">Zalta, Edward N.</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/facts/Stanford_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy/LDuL5HW4">Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=115030">The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Henricus Regius</a></li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012. <a href="978-0-387-31022-0" target="_blank">978-0-387-31022-0</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Copleston, Frederick Charles (2003). A history of philosophy, Volume 4. Continuum International. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-8264-6898-7. <a href="978-0-8264-6898-7" target="_blank">978-0-8264-6898-7</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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