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 | | Thales of Miletus (639-544 BCE), regarded by Plato and Aristotle as the initiator of philosophy, was a merchant and traveler of some renown, journeying widely in both Egypt and Mesopotamia. |
 | | Comprising at its peak, in 47 BCE, of some 700,000 volumes, it was maintained by (as Majno so aptly put it): "bibliomaniacs in the homeland of the papyrus, (who) bought, copied, or pirated all the literature available". |
 | | The School of Alexandria and its successors developed the anatomy of the eye under the leadership of the great anatomist Herophilus of Chalcedon (344-280 BCE) who was an avid exponent of the importance of the brain and was the first to understand the nature and significance of nerves. |
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