Alcmaeon
Americannoun
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The origin of movement had bewitched some of history’s shrewdest minds: Alcmaeon, Plato, Aristotle, Posidonius, Al-Razi, Descartes, Newton, Franklin.
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2018
The Alcmaeon in Psôphis was what we should call a romance.
From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert
Alcmaeon, that the vacuity that is within the ear makes us to have the sense of hearing, for the air forcing a vacuum gives the sound; every inanity affords a ringing.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Dissection—already practiced by Alcmaeon, Democritus, Diogenes and others—was conducted on a large scale, but the human body was still taboo.
From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William
Alcmaeon believes that the principal part of the soul, residing in the brain, draws to itself odors by respiration.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
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