Alcmaeon of Croton(C. 540–500 Bce) Alcmaeon of Croton (a Greek city-state in southern Italy) was a pioneer in the study of human psychology and physiology. He published one book in the late sixth or first half of the fifth century BCE. Only two...

Alcmæon of Croton (mid-Fifth Century BCE) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and medical theorist. Alcmæon was a pupil of Pythagoras. Although he wrote mostly on medical topics there is some suggestion that he was not a physician but a philosopher of...