Gómez Pereira (1500 to 1567) was a Spanish philosopher, physician and natural humanist from Medina del Campo, who studied natural philosophy and medicine at Salamanca under Juan Martínez Silíceo and favored the nominalists in the disputes of his day. He practiced medicine across Castile and was summoned to the court of Philip II to attend Prince Charles, while also running family businesses and designing a waterless watermill with Francisco Lobato. As a thinker he rejected the authority of ancient and medieval masters in favor of reason, logic and experience, and he is credited with proposing the Cogito ergo sum in 1554, long before Descartes. His medical treatise Novae veraeque Medicinae challenged the tradition of Aristotle and Galen.
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was a Spanish philosopher, doctor, and natural humanist from Medina del Campo
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was a Spanish philosopher, doctor, and natural humanist from Medina del Campo
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He rejected the authority of the old masters and medievals in favor of reason, logic and experience.
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