id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5399 Scottish Enlightenment - Wikipedia .html text/html 9491 1144 61 Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) was appointed as the first Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh, and he co-founded the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1681.[16] These developments helped the universities to become major centres of medical education and would put Scotland at the forefront of new thinking.[12] By the end of the century, the University of Edinburgh's Medical School was arguably one of the leading centres of science in Europe, boasting such names as the anatomist Alexander Monro (secundus), the chemists William Cullen and Joseph Black,[17] and the natural historian John Walker.[18] By the 18th century, access to Scottish universities was probably more open than in contemporary England, Germany or France. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5399.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5399.txt