Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Herophilos

Born: 335 BC
Died: 280 BC (aged 55)
Bio: Herophilos, sometimes Latinised Herophilus, was a Greek physician deemed to be the first anatomist. Born in Chalcedon, he spent the majority of his life in Alexandria. He was the first scientist to systematically perform scientific dissections of human cadavers.