The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.

  • Johnson, John Noble, 1787-1823.
Date:
1835
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Credit: The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE LIFE OK The advantages, which were expected by the monarch to arise from these ^Jrooft 'of his wisdom This supposed fact rests—I. Upon the authorities of ancient and modern writers, in whose works allusions are made to Britain and its ancient inhabitants. II. Upon the proofs afforded by analogy and collateral evidence. I. One of the earliest and most reputable autliors of antiquity, to whom the existence of the western islands of Europe was known, was the historian Herodotus. He has distinctly men- tioned them as the places whence the ancients were supplied with amber and tin, and although he confesses his ignorance of the navigation of the western ocean,—a subject on yvhich he had vainly sought information,—he knew them to abound in these products, from the latter and more profitable of which, they derived the name, Cassiterides, by which they were known to the learned or to the merchants of Greece. Oure vqaovc SiSa Kaero-t- Tspt^ae eovaac, ek twv 6 KciariiTEpoQ ijfuv <poiT^' tSto jjikv yap, u 'Hpicavcgi avro hrarrjyope'et to ovvofxa ojq ectti 'EX\t)vikou rat ov rt ftap^apov, VTTO ttoiyiteu} tivoq Troir]div. 'r5to 'Sk, Hhvoe avTO-rrrtb) yevofiiva ov SwafxaL aKStrat, thtO heKetwv, okwq QaXaacra iari rh iiTEKetva riig Eupw7r?7C. Eaxat)}^ ^ wp x) Te KadairEpog fjffiu <f>oiT^, rat TO E\EKTpov.—Herodoti Halicarn. Hist. lib. 3. Aristotle, a name of equal authority, has described two great islands situated west of the pillars of Hercules, and lying beyond the Celtcc, which he calls British, distingviishing them by the names Albion and lernee, the first of which is said to have derived its name from Albion, the son of Neptune, A.M. 2220. Ev tovt^ ye jxriv [wfceavw], vjjffoi fieyiaToX te rvyxavowtriv «^ht ^vo, Cpfm*^ viKhi \£yofX6i>ai, AX/3tov (Ctit lipvr), Ywv vpo'iaTopi)fj.EVii)P fXEi^hiSf vTzip THg keXtus KEifiemi.—De Mundo, Opera curd du Val, Parisj 1629, torn. i. p. 604. • : ' The entertaining, but fabulous narration, by-AtlienseuSvof the vessel of Hiero, the Syracusan, which he copied from Moschion, has been adduced as a proof that the interior of Britain was known to the Greeks nearly 200 years before the descent of Csesar on its coasts. This enormous inachinCj compared to which the mightiest specimens of the naval architecture of thd moderns are but as toys, was launched by the skill of Phileas