"We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder."
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Medical scientistsRoman Catholic bishopsPeople from CopenhagenCatholics from DenmarkGeologists from Denmark
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quoted in Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by S. Finger (Introduction; A Voyage Across time) (2000)
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Nicolas Steno
Nicolas Steno (11 January 1638 – 5 December 1686) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years.
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