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

Eudikos (250 BCE – 75 CE) P 31.13 cites him for two springs near Hestiaia: one which blackens and one which whitens the skin ...

Eudoxos completed the generalization of proportion theory, one of the principal intellectual efforts of the previous 50 years, a ...

this as a general theorem about magnitudes A, B. In the second part of the proof, one now assumes that X > B. Here this case ...

more spheres rotating oppositely with the synodic period of the planet, one with poles on the equator of the second sphere, and ...

Eudoxos of Kuzikos (120 – 110 BCE) Greek navigator whose adventures and discoveries were documented by P  A ( ...

pepper (6.6.20 [2.210.24–28 Spencer]); the ball-shaped sphaerion he compounded from hematite, peppercorns, calamine, and myrrh p ...

Eugamios (250 BCE – 300 CE?) The Antidotarium Brux. 39 (T P p. 374 Rose) cites his (or her?) remedy against dro ...

Euhe ̄meros/Himerios (ca 150 – 350 CE?) Euhe ̄meros (in MS Parisinus gr. 2322) or Himerios (in MS Phillipps 1538); addressee of ...

Eume ̄los of The ̄bai (before ca 350 CE?) Author of a treatise on the medical treatment of horses and cows, preserved in excerpt ...

Eupalinos of Megara (550 – 500 BCE) Son of Naustrophos, architect and engineer, built a water supply system for Samos noted by H ...

a prose treatise on agriculture excerpted by C D seems doubtful (V, RR 1.1.9–10; cf. C, 1.1.11); perha ...

Euphrate ̄s (160 – 180 CE) Procurator a rationibus, who provided the simples used in the preparation of the antidote favored by ...

son. His fame must soon have spread widely, if the comic poet Plato (425– 385 BCE) men- tioned him; he is credited with the sayi ...

[#11], O. Seeck), who may be the same man. The Christian name is first attested in the 3rd c. CE, although Eusebe ̄s/Eusebis is ...

Euthumene ̄s of Massalia (ca 550 – 510 BCE?) Wrote a periplous of the Atlantic coast of Africa, describing the mouth of the Sene ...

DSB 4.488–491, I. Bulmer-Thomas; A. Cameron “Isidore of Miletus and Hypatia: On the editing of mathematical texts,” GRBS 31 (199 ...

Expositio totius mundi (ca 360 CE) Greek geographical treatise, ca 360, whose anonymous author was possibly a pagan from Syria; ...

F F ⇒ T M. Cetius Fauentinus (ca 300 CE?) Authored a late antique manual on private architecture, usually known in the ...

Fauonius Eulogius (ca 380 – 420 CE) Municipal Rhetor in Carthage and student of A, who mentions Eulogius in his De cura ...

secondly, it uses, and in some cases invents, Latin astrological terminology. Firmicus strives to make technical, sometimes east ...