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

RE 8.1 (1912) 487–488 (#49), H. Daebritz and G. Funaioli; Düring (1932); KP 2.1043 (#19), H. Gärtner; Barker (1989); Mathiesen ( ...

another discipline already studied by Mantias. He also wrote two treatises on therapeutics, one dealing with external diseases, ...

He ̄rakleitos (Math.) (450 – 150 BCE?) In commenting on A  P’s lost Neuseis, P (Coll. 7.128 Jones) quotes ...

Unlike earlier cosmologists, who saw the world as arising out of a uniform state of matter, He ̄rakleitos seems to have rejected ...

He ̄rakle(i)odo ̄ros (370 – 320 BCE?) L  10, heavily damaged, includes him, after A, T  M ...

whom (together with N) it seems largely based. Characteristic of its age, the poem blends medical with purely magical ph ...

Hermeias (Math.) (40 – 100 CE) One of P’ interlocutors in Table Talk 9.3 (738D–739A), a geometer who addressed why the G ...

Herme ̄s Trismegistos, pseudo (ca 100 BCE – ca 400 CE) Several texts have been ascribed to the Greco-Egyptian god of gno ̄sis, H ...

Hermippos of Be ̄rutos (105 – 165 CE) Born a slave in an inland Be ̄rutos (Souda E-3045) but eventually freed, studied under P ...

Hermogene ̄s of Alabanda (200 – 150 BCE) Architect and architectural theorist, cited often by V, who seems to have relie ...

Hermolaos (Geog.) (ca 530 – 560 or ca 690 – 710 CE) Grammatikos at Constantinople, wrote the extant epitome of S  B ...

He ̄rodikos of Knidos (440 – 400 BCE) Greek physician of uncertain date, earlier than H but slightly later than E ...

He ̄rodotos (Mech.) (230 – 180 BCE?) Made minor improvements to the traction machine of N, according to H-  in ...

the idea of a river “Ocean” encircling the landmass of Asia, Africa and Europe, simply on the basis of lack of empirical support ...

Poioumeno ̄n Boe ̄the ̄mato ̄n); (2) Cathartic Remedies (Peri to ̄n Kenoumeno ̄n Boe ̄the ̄mato ̄n); (3) External Rem- edies (Pe ...

introduction gives a theoretical account of the constitution and properties of matter, and He ̄ro ̄n argues that air can be comp ...

double the volume. This problem cannot be solved just with ruler and compass, and He ̄ro ̄n uses a special sliding ruler, thus c ...

a compiler, who simply preserved material from his predecessors (such as Philo ̄n and K), rather than proving himself a ...

in Ath., Deipn., 1d [epitome]). A strong contrast was the career of He ̄rophilos, whose dissec- tions of the human cadaver at th ...

He ̄rophilos had a genius for coining anatomical names, and some are still standard in anatomy today. He named part of the small ...