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mathematicians of the Greco-Roman world
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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.
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Flourished 400 BCE - 301 BCE • ancient Greece

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Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Greek physician
Soranus Of Ephesus
Greek physician
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
al-Rāzī
Persian physician
Jean Cruveilhier
French pathologist
Mondino De’ Luzzi
Italian physician
George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
Guy de Chauliac
French physician
Caelius Aurelianus
Greco-Roman physician
Li Shizhen
Chinese scholar
Baillou, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1580
Guillaume de Baillou
French physician
Bergmann, Ernst von
Ernst von Bergmann
German surgeon

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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.
Ancient Greece