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Agrigento
Empedocles (490 BC - 430 BC) was a Greek presocratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for being the origin of the cosmogenic theory of the four classical elements.
Edinburgh
During the 17th and 18th centuries Edinburgh was known as the Athens of the North due to the advancement of the arts and sciences by its citizens. It was during this period of intellectual revitalization and discovery that Edinburgh physicians begin to have meetings in their homes to discuss the art and practice of medicine. On particularly eminent physician, Sir Robert Sibbald, petitioned King Charles II (the kiddo of the man Cromwell murdered) who granted the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh a Charter in 1681.
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