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

Epidauros (?) (120 BCE – 80 CE) A, in G CMGen 7.7 (13.985 K.), gives his ointment for circumcision: thapsia root, ...

Epigene ̄s of Rhodes (285 – 90 BCE) Agronomist whose work may have treated cereals, livestock, poultry, viticulture, and arbori- ...

to him. The real author and date of the Kheiro ̄n are unknown, but it might have been written as early as the 4th–3rd cc. BCE, i ...

Epimakhos of Athens (310 – 300 BCE) Epimakhos designed a giant helepolis (siege-tower) for De ̄me ̄trios Poliorke ̄te ̄s at the ...

Ed.: MSR 1 (1864) 140–142, 259–276, 2 (1866) 100–106; J.E. Dean, Epiphanius’ Treatise on weights and measures. The Syriac Versio ...

pushed into the arteries when the heart contracts; meanwhile, excess air in the lungs has absorbed or “sucked up” some of the su ...

muscles by arteries and nerves enables them to contract and relax, displaying “voluntary” motion. This theory of “eating + diges ...

Erasistratos of Sikuo ̄n (250 BCE – 95 CE) A P., in G CMLoc 10.3 (13.356–358 K.), records two humor- extrac ...

the “Treasury of Analysis” (topos analuomenos), a corpus of resources for the solution of geometrical problems by analysis, but ...

A more technical work on harmonic theory seems to lie behind schemes that P attributes to Eratosthene ̄s (Harmonics 2.14) ...

defined regions with rectilinear borders (sphragides, “seals”). It is not clear whether the text was meant to be accompanied by ...

K, H  T, and several others; most of Ero ̄tianos’ appositions, however, are drawn from drama and poetry, ...

oil, spikenard, sturax-gum, terebinth, and absinthe wormwood, in honey and Falernian wine. The archaic name (cf. LGPN 3B.145) wa ...

Euangeus (?) (250 BCE – 80 CE) A, in G CMGen 5.5 (13.806 K.), gives his “green” plaster, containing aloes, birthw ...

325 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 34.10). A Euboulos appears in V’s list of Greek writers on agriculture (RR 1.1.9) added by C ...

considered Euclidean, all characterized by apparently rigorous, stylized deduction from first principles, are discussed here. Da ...

less than n·D, and that A:B > C:D if and only if for some m and n, m·A > n·B and m·C ≤ n·D. Euclid’s theory deals only wit ...

the properties of the simplest multiple (mn:n) and epimoric ((n+1):n) ratios; (3) seven sub- sequent propositions (10–16) wherei ...

p. 354]); therapy for hudrophobia, according to Eude ̄mos, consisted of venesection, administration of hellebore (type not speci ...

this purgative, with another pharmakopo ̄le ̄s, E  K, who took a draught of hellebore with impunity. RE 6.1 (1907) 9 ...