Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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)






