The same desire for accuracy that motivated the production of scientific images also led to more rigorous editions and translations of classic scientific texts, whose impact was magnified by the printing press. Between 1495 and 1498 Aldus Manutius printed the “Greek Aristotle” in Venice, an edition prepared by a team which included the humanist-physicians Niccolò Leoniceno and Thomas Linacre under the guidance of another physician, Francesco Cavalli.  Consequently, Manutius’s edition, which incorporated significant improvements of the Aristotelian texts such as those proposed years before by Theodor Gaza for the Historia Animalium, favored the scientific works by Aristotle and did not include, for example, either Rhetoric or Poetics. Yet the scientific text that received the most attention from philologists was Pliny’s Natural History. Between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Pliny’s work was emended by philologists such as Ermolao Barbaro, Angelo Poliziano, and Niccolò Leoniceno—and also translated several times in the vernaculars—in increasingly sophisticated versions. Both the editions and the translations were intended to allow for a correct understanding of the text, which was often used by doctors and apothecaries. The same thing happened with Dioscorides’ Materia medica, a text that unlike the encyclopedic Natural History was plainly addressed to a medical audience, and which was then repeatedly emended and translated by professional physicians and natural philosophers. Yet, also authors like Virgil, Horace and Ovid were common presences in discussions about botany, and even a philological evaluation of the text of the Bible provided material to natural philosophers.