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Ideas of Alcmaeon, by Text

[Greek, c.570 - 490 BCE, Born in Croton. Taught by Pythagoras. Ran the school after his death.]

490BCE

fragments/reports

p.19

5987

Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Staden, von]

DK 24

p.8

24043

Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Aristotle]