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

Diodo ̄ros wrote on theology and scriptural exegesis (fragments of his commentaries in PG 33.1546–1628); he attacked P and P ...

differences among particles [and] confusing one drug for another.” Diodotos wrote in iam- bic trimeters on medical botany and oi ...

to L (5), A and the Cynics (6), Z  K and the Stoics (7: possibly down to the 1st c. CE: the end of ...

Diogene ̄s of Babylo ̄n (ca 200 – 150 BCE) Born ca 240 BCE, fifth head of the Stoa; student of C and Ze ̄no ̄n of Tarso ...

Ed.: M.F. Smith, Diogenes of Oinoanda: The Epicurean Inscription (1993); Idem, Supplement to Diogenes of Oinoanda: The Epicurean ...

Diokle ̄s (ca 200 – 175 BCE) Mathematician, probably lived in Arkadia for a while, as he mentions (in the intro- duction to his ...

and is not mentioned elsewhere in Aristotle’s or Theophrastos’ treatises. On the other hand similarities exist between some of D ...

prominently in his pathology. Similarly, coagulation and corruption of the blood cause disease (frr.34, 59). In his Affection, C ...

verdigris, myrrh, frankincense, and opium in gum; and the other substituting khalkan- thon for the verdigris, and saffron for th ...

G.J. Toomer, Ptolemy’s Almagest (1984); B. L. van der Waerden, “Greek Astronomical Calendars. III. The Calendar of Dionysios,” A ...

Hippokratic exegete (Gale ̄n, In Hipp. Aph. 4.49 [17B.750–51 K.] = fr.209); (c) the botanist who described clover (Seruius, Ad G ...

D  E; Wellmann and others have suggested identification with D (M.). The father’s name is very rare: L ...

C. Jacob, La Description de la terre habitée de Denys d’Alexandrie ou la leçon de géographie (1990); I.O. Tsavari, Histoire du t ...

Dionusios of Ephesos (290 – 250 BCE?) Physician, wrote a Record of Physicians wherein he reports that N  M was E ...

1642, fr.4). He insisted that induction must be based upon what is always and everywhere observed. GGP 4.2 (1994) 641–642, P. St ...

domestic and mythic fowls, and presents “the names, residences and customs, talents, forces and desires of birds, and the ways o ...

the skin and produce hair-growth. Wellmann tentatively equates him with the oculist “C. Iulius Dionysodorus” known from a collyr ...

Diophane ̄s of Nikaia (85 – 60 BCE) Compiled a six-book epitome of C D’ translation of Mago’s agricultural work, d ...

treats these problems in his new, algebraic way. Books 2–3 teach and apply some funda- mental methods which are then extended to ...

A P., in Gale ̄n CMGen 5.4 (13.805 K.), discussing the uses of dittany, includes Diophantos’ antidote to any poi ...