Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)