The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.

He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics astronomy and meteorology geography human anatomy medicine and pharmacology as well as jurisprudence translation poetry and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages. He is renowned in the history of several of these fields particularly medicine and theology.