He studied Medicine and the Universities of Alcalá de Henares and Salamanca in Spain, and taught Natural Philosophy at the University of Coimbra, where he befriended the great mathematician Pedro Nunes.
He studied Medicine and the Universities of Alcalá de Henares and Salamanca in Spain. He returned to Portugal in 1523, and prectised Medicine in Lisbon, where he befriended the great mathematician Pedro Nunes.