Galeni Pergamensis de temperamentis et de inaequali intemperie libri tres / Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc primum prodit in lucem cum gratia & privilegio. Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch, anno MDXXI. Reproduced in exact facsimile, with an introduction by Joseph Frank Payne and a portrait of Thomas Linacre.

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Date:
1881
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Credit: Galeni Pergamensis de temperamentis et de inaequali intemperie libri tres / Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc primum prodit in lucem cum gratia & privilegio. Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch, anno MDXXI. Reproduced in exact facsimile, with an introduction by Joseph Frank Payne and a portrait of Thomas Linacre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    to his friend Linacre, Grocyn goes on to thank Aldus, in the name of English scholars especially for his editions of the Greek classics, and commends his preference for Aristotle to Plato. The rest of this letter, the style of which is praised by Erasmus, is interesting, especially as the only extant composi- tion, except two trifling epigrams, of this once celebrated scholar, but has no further reference to our subject. Aldus prefixed it to Linacres translation of Proclus Oii the Sphere, printed by him in the year 1499^, in order (as he says in his dedication of this work to Albertus Pius, prince of Carpi) to make the ItaHan philosophers ashamed of their bad Latin, and lead them to rival the Enghshmen. In the dedication just named Aldus pays a high compHment to Linacre's scho- larship, which may be quoted here, though written later. VLinacre, he says, has translated this work with elegance and learning. Qui utinam et SimpHcium in AristoteHs Physica, et in ejusdem meteora Alexandrum quos nunc summa cura Latinos facit, ad me dedisset, ut et iHos uni cum Proclo ad te mitte- rem. Quanquam (ut spero) eosque et ahos in Philosophia, medicinaque perutiles Hbros aHquando dabit. ut ex eadem Britannia unde oHm barbarae et indoctse Hterae ad nos pro- fectse ItaHam occuparunt, et adhuc arces tenent, latine et docte loquentes bonas artes accipiamus, ac britannicis adjutoribus fugata barbarie, arces nostras recipiamus, ut eadem hasta sanetur a qua iHatum est vulnus. He also impHes that an intimate friendship existed be- tween Linacre and the prince of Carpi, on which account the work wiH be more welcome to his patron. The Aldine editio princeps of Aristotle contains also an interesting aHusion to Linacre, which seems to shew that he had something to do with the editing or correcting of that great