Niccolò Leoniceno orvos, filozófus, az orvostudomány újkori reformjának atyja
Niccolò Leoniceno, Physician, Philosopher, Father of Modern Medical Reform

Summary/Abstract: This study presents the career of Niccolò Leoniceno (1428–1515), a Ferrara medical professor, Galen’s translator, and the trigger of the Pliny debate. Through his long life as a scientist and an educator, he laid the foundations for a new humanistic medicine that went back to the roots of Greek medicine. He critically examined not only the texts of the ‘barbarian,’ i.e., Arab and late scholastic, but also the most authoritative Roman and Greek authors among the humanists, not for the purpose of destroying authority, but for the purpose of discovering the truth. His consistent position contributed to the birth of modern science.

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