Thomas Linacre (also: Lynaker) (* 1460; "† 20 December 1524) was an English physician, mathematician and a scholar. It is considered as the founders of the human in England. After it the Linacre college is designated in Oxford.

Life

It was possibly born in Canterbury, however little is well-known over its origin. Thomas Linacre received his early training at the school of the cathedral from Canterbury. There its interest in classical literature was aroused. After a study in Oxford starting from 1480, Linacre traveled by Italy, where he perfected his latin and Greek knowledge. it graduated to 1496 at the medical faculty in Padua. There he came also with the Italian human into contact and provided a translation of of the antique philosopher Proklos, which was the last director/conductor of of the Platonic academy of Athens and author of a multiplicity of writings, which treated just as theological as mathematical topics.

Back in London he was appointed by the English king Heinrich VII. the educator of the successor to the throne Arthur. There it opened also a medical practice. Its patients were among other things Heinrich VIII., Thomas Morus and Erasmus of Rotterdam. 1518 arranged Linacre the establishment of the Royal college OF Physicians, in order to lift the standard of the medical supply. 1520 it gave practice and offices up and could to the catholic priest be weihen. It uses its fortune for the mechanism of chairs for Greek medicine in Cambridge and Oxford.

Erasmus of Rotterdam judged that its translations of the writings Galens had been in latin its most important contribution to the medicine.

Works

• De sanitate tuenda, Paria 1517
• Methodus medendi, Paris 1519
• De temperamentis et de Inaequali Intemperie, Cambridge 1521
• De naturalibus facultatibus, London 1523
• De symptomatum differentiis et causis, London 1524
• De pulsuum Usu, London (date unknown)

Articles in category "Thomas Linacre"

We found here 1 articles.