The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs

says that some people used the quadratices of Nikome ̄de ̄s and Hippias (usually thought to be H  E ̄) to trisect an ...

De ̄me ̄trios (Astrol.) (unknown date) Astrologer to whom “Palkhos” (pseudonym for Eleutherios, 1388 CE [Pingree 1978: 437]) asc ...

De ̄me ̄trios of Alexandria (200 BCE – 100 CE) Wrote Linear Considerations (Grammikai Epistaseis: the third of the three types o ...

indivisibles (atoma) with the fundamental principles of mathematics. De ̄me ̄trios, not citing E explicitly, discusses bise ...

De ̄mokede ̄s of Kroto ̄n (ca 560 – 500 BCE) According to H (3.131–137), De ̄mokede ̄s was the most famous doctor of hi ...

demiurge, a less radical distinction than that between divine hupostaseis upheld by N  A and Plo ̄tinos. Hence ...

eyes of eidola, or thin atomic images, that all objects are constantly shedding. Perceptible qualities (e.g., color, taste, temp ...

Physica et mystica (CAAG 2.41–53) and Book 5 Addressed to L (CAAG 2.53–56). The first, a compilation of unrelated fragme ...

De ̄mokritos, pseudo (Pharmacy) (150? – 80 BCE) P quotes Democritus on herbs, once giving the title, De Effectu Herbarum (25 ...

antipathic to the household weasel, and whose bite is cured by the Psulloi (herpetologists first in Nikandros, apud A, NA ...

the end of the section, “pain in the temples... is alleviated with compresses made from small poppy-heads... and some added saff ...

Concerning architecture, the so-called Book of the Temple describes how a temple ought to be built and its cult organized. As re ...

Derkullide ̄s emphasizes the regularity of planetary motion, and rejects eccentrics and epicycles introduced, he claims, by A ...

have been still too large, Mind dispersed surplus fire into the sky; consequently the stars were born. A sentence seems to say t ...

featuring an iron-tipped yard-arm with battering ram operated by a system of pulleys and windlasses; he also describes movable t ...

Like Ptolemaïs, Didumos divided his predecessors according to the methodological cri- terion of relative emphasis on either sens ...

historical Dogmatic physicians (MM 1.3.13 [10.28 K. = p. 15 Hankinson], On Venesection, Against Erasistratos 5 [11.163 K. = p. 2 ...

Dimensuratio Prouinciarum and Diuisio orbis terrarum (400 – 500 CE?) Two brief geographical works in Latin giving the names, bou ...

Ed.: MSR 1 (1864) 156–157, 299–300. Hultsch (1882) 8, 339–340; RE 5.1 (1905) 712, Idem; BNP 4 (2004) 445 (#19), M. Folkerts. Mau ...

Long and Sedley (1987) 1.44, 51–52, 209–210, 230–236; OCD3 472, D.N. Sedley; ECP 185 – 187, M. White. Richard Bett Diodo ̄ros of ...