Twelve Catholic men of science / edited by Sir Bertram Windle.

  • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
Date:
1912
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Credit: Twelve Catholic men of science / edited by Sir Bertram Windle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THOMAS LINACRE SCHOLAR, PHYSICIAN, PRIEST (1460-1524) BY J. P. PYE, M.D., D.Sc., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in University College, Galway. The career open to the talents is supposed to date from Napoleon’s time, though not everybody is satisfied that the way is open even now. “ Educational ladders ” up which may be had, if not a particularly easy way, still a way from any lower level to the highest place in the State, are talked of. The elevating apparatus (it is held) must include some arrangement for study abroad in the shape of travelling subsidies, with a view to mental expansion and uplifting under the influence of foreign life and manners. If that is the best that education can do (and Mr. Ruskin held that Englishmen are constitutionally unfit to do it), the people of the fifteenth century must be allowed to have had some notion of what was good for them. At least, they and their times did well for the boy Thomas Linacre (Lynacre), bom at Canterbury 1460 (1tempore Henry VII.) ; educated at the monastery school—parents obscure or unknown ; thence to Oxford, Florence, Rome, Padua; the first, or amongst the first, of Renaissance scholars ; friend of Erasmus and More and many others, great men in a great time—Wolsey, War- ham, Colet; held in high repute amongst Italian litterati and princes—Lorenzo de’ Medici and his son Pope Leo X.
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