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

(iv) about the environment (including weather, food etc.). Observation was, therefore, guided by dogma, “facts” became “facts” t ...

hudrops replaces black bile – implying a date of ca 420 – 380 BCE. The other gynecological treatises too are thought to have tak ...

Ed.: Mul. I and II, Steril.: Littré 8; some sections, with German trans., in H. Grensemann, Knidische Medizin 1 (1975), Hippokra ...

Hippokratic Corpus, Heart (ca 350 – 250 BCE) Although G does not question its authenticity, it is unlikely that this work w ...

disease and its symptomatology. Other elements figuring in the nosological descriptions are: details of treatment, both dietetic ...

then provides detailed practical instructions about how most accurately and effectively to read signs offered by the bodies of t ...

Ed.: Littré 5.588–733; B. Alexanderson, Die hippokratische Schrift Prognostikon: Überlieferung und Text (1963); H. Polack, Textk ...

W, P), food and drink, and lifestyle on the body. Food and drink are presented authoritatively but summarily, hence th ...

Hippokratic Corpus, On the Sacred Disease (430 – 400 BCE) On the Sacred Disease attacks magicians and priests as impious charlat ...

seven parts, which correspond to the parts of the body. The second part of the work, discussing the causes and treatment of feve ...

accumulated blood as the cause of piles, fistula in ano, and condyloma, both recommend treatment by medication and fomentation b ...

Hippo ̄n of Kroto ̄n (450 – 430 BCE?) Hippo ̄n (b. ca 475 BCE) continued a line of early Pythagorean natural philosophy and Ital ...

Homer (750 – 700 BCE) Associated with the two earliest surviving Greek epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, along with a number of ...

The Sasernae apparently referred to H’ discovery of the precession of the equinoxes (Columella 1.1.4–5). They are thus ...

S  K, to have mentored at least 15 students, most of them Christians, all socially and politically elite (Dziels ...

supposed physician, Hupatos. It was, however, a professorial title in use at the university in Constantinople (from the 11th c. ...

name is otherwise unattested.) Cf. perhaps E, H, H, or Hurradios (father of Pittakos: D L ...

Hyginus, pseudo, de Metatione Castrorum (ca 200 – 212 CE) A military geometer of good theoretical training and practical experie ...

Congresso Internazionale “Les vocabulaires techniques des arpenteurs romains,” Besançon (19–21 Septembre 2002) (2005) 125–136. A ...

I Iako ̄bos Psukhrestos (457 – 474 CE) D, Philosophical History 5.84 ( pp. 206–213 Athan.), attests most fully to the po ...