It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Bio: Pappus of Alexandria was one of the last great Greek mathematicians of Antiquity, known for his Synagoge or Collection, and for Pappus's hexagon theorem in projective geometry.
