Alcmaeon
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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
His new wife longed for the necklace and peplus, and Alcmaeon, returning to Psophis, obtained possession of them, on the pretence that he desired to dedicate them at Delphi.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Alcmaeon, that they receive their nourishment from every part of the body; as a sponge sucks in water.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
ALCMAEONIDAE, a noble Athenian family, claiming descent from Alcmaeon, the great-grandson of Nestor, who emigrated from Pylos to Athens at the time of the Dorian invasion of Peloponnesus.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The first Greek anatomist, however, who is recognized as such, is said to have been Alcmaeon.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington
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