Alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons.

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  • alpha, beta, gamma and delta: the first four letters of the Greek alphabet → the New Testament was written in Greek
  • Alfred Chester Beatty: American philanthropist and industrialist who left his extensive collection of artworks and manuscripts to the Irish nation; his collection included some of the oldest fragments of the New Testament
  • Dalton: John Dalton (1766-1844), father of the modern atomic theory → daltonism = a form of colour-blindness