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

Brumbaugh, Ancient Greek Gadgets and Machines (1966); Harris (1973) 177–233; S. West, “Cultural Exchange over a Water-Clock,” CQ ...

poem’s “Wo rk s”) is addressed to Perse ̄s and the peasant farmers of Boio ̄tia. The poet instructs them on fall woodcutting and ...

Phil. Hist. 84A-D, pp. 206–208 Athan.). He ̄sukhios scorned the physicians at Constantinople (121), prescribed purges, cold bath ...

A.H.M. Jones, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces (1937) 514–521; KP 2.1133–1134, H. Gärtner; HLB 1.531; Tusculum-Lexikon ...

human nature, including behavior towards parents, reverence of the gods and homeland. In his most striking passage, Hierokle ̄s ...

Hiero ̄numos of Rhodes (260 – 230 BCE) Scholarch of the Peripatos, and writer of biographies. P, Quaest. Conv. 1.8 (626 A ...

Hikesios of Smurna (120 – 80 BCE?) In his terse summary of the medical instructors assembled at Me ̄n Karou (founded as a school ...

Hiketas of Surakousai (ca 400 – 350 BCE) Belongs to a group of later Pythagoreans active in Surakousai in the first part of the ...

sometimes difficult to distinguish Hipparkhos’ material from Ptolemy’s. Consequently, some scholars have underemphasized the sca ...

Daryn Lehoux Hippasios of E ̄lis (before ca 400 CE?) Author of a remedy for horses or cows preserved in the Hippiatrika (Hippiat ...

geometry he is connected with a construction of the dodecahedron. Along with Pythagoras, Hippasos was one of the founders of mat ...

without depending on any other known author as an intermediary. His text is notable for its introductory material on bloodlettin ...

third quadrilateral ADCB Hippokrate ̄s starts from a semicircle FGD’ with diameter FC’D’ and center C’. He bisects C’D’ at H and ...

Ed.: F. Rudio (with trans.), Der Bericht des Simplicius über die Quadraturen des Antiphon und des Hippokrates (1907). Heath (192 ...

Hippokrate ̄s of Ko ̄s (ca 440 – ca 370 BCE) Hippokrate ̄s is considered the father of medicine, just as H is considere ...

2 Hippokrate ̄s is said again to have refused to treat barbarians during a plague (not the Athenian plague); on the contrary, he ...

Hippokratic Corpus, Airs, Waters, Places (430 – 400 BCE) Intended to aid itinerant doctors traveling to unfamiliar places, Airs, ...

Breaths (Littré 6). This is a treatise of unusual content, affirming that all diseases are caused by “winds” or “breaths” (phusa ...

makes them unverifiable and impedes communication between doctor and patient. Medi- cine’s traditional method – reasoning based ...

and elliptical, with recourse to simile and metaphor. Where case notes are recorded, the content overlaps with that of E ...