The epitaph on whose tomb is followed by the deceased's own couplet: "Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it."?
John Gay John Gay (1685-1732) had a varied career including as diplomat (briefly), disastrous investor in the South Sea Bubble, poet and dramatist, and is best known for "The Beggar's Opera" (music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch).
Which Greek physician born in 460 BC to a family of priests and doctors lived most of his life on Cos and Cnidus and is generally considered to be the father of modern medicine?
Whose 4 sons were an astronomer, a botanist, an army engineer who went on scientific explorations, and the head of a scientific instrument manufacturing company?
