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| Herophilus was an anatomist at the library; his research led him to chart the purpose and function of all bodily organs, including the brain and nervous system. they brought together in Alexandria the greatest thinkers of the time-Euclid, the inventor of geometry; Erastothenes, who calculated the circumference of the earth; Herophilus, who established the rules of anatomy and physiology; Aristarchus and Dionysius Thrax, who codified grammar; and the founder of cartography, Claudius Ptolemateus. |
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