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Also Known As	Alcmeon
Flourished	c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE
Subjects Of Study	dissection • human body

Galen of Pergamum

Galen

Greek physician

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Diogenes Of Apollonia

Greek philosopher

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Hippon

Greek philosopher

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Archytas of Tarentum

Greek mathematician

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Pythagoras

Greek philosopher and mathematician

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Lysis Of Tarentum

Greek philosopher

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Hippasus of Metapontum

Greek philosopher

Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann von Helmholtz

German scientist and philosopher

Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius

Belgian physician

J.B.S. Haldane.

J.B.S. Haldane

British geneticist

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Jacob Moleschott

Dutch-Italian physiologist and philosopher

John Scott Haldane

John Scott Haldane

British physiologist

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Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis

French philosopher and physiologist

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Mondino De’ Luzzi

Italian physician

Marble bust of Aristotle with a beard and draped robe, showing detailed facial features and wavy hair, set against a dark background.

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Socrates

Socrates

Greek philosopher

The Greek philosopher Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Illustration shows a sketch of the ancient Greek writer Lucian, published in Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.

Lucian

Greek writer

Bronze bust of Epicurus with a full beard and draped clothing, displayed on a round inscribed base at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Epicurus

Greek philosopher

St. Gregory of Nyssa

Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Byzantine philosopher and theologian

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

Faces of Science

Agathon (centre) greeting guests in "Plato's Symposium" oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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