Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
John Ayrton Paris

Born: 1785
Died: December 24, 1856 (aged 71)
Bio: John Ayrton Paris, FRS was a British physician. He is most widely remembered as a possible inventor of the thaumatrope, which he published with W. Phillips in April 1825.
Known for:
- The Life of Sir Humphry Davy (1831)
- Medical Jurisprudence (1823)