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

his layout of the three principles of the Empiricist “tripod,” Me ̄nodotos separated the different types of “experience” (Gale ̄ ...

Me ̄nophilos (120 BCE – 25 CE) C 6.7.2C describes his ear medicine: pepper, myrrh, saffron, poppy “tears,” pome- granate pe ...

DSB 9.337–340, G.J. Toomer; B. Goldstein and A.C. Bowen, “Meton of Athens and Astronomy in the Late Fifth Century B.C.,” in Leic ...

Metrodora: Medicina e cosmei ad uso delle donne (1994): unreliable; Holt N. Parker, Metrodora: The Gynecology = SAM (forthcoming ...

Me ̄trodo ̄ros son of Epikharmos, pseudo (200 BCE – 100 CE?) E’ son, credited by I (VP 241) with a medical tre ...

Me ̄trodo ̄ros of Lampsakos (305 – 278 BCE) Epicurean philosopher who studied under E-  at Lampsakos ca 310 – 307, and mo ...

Me ̄trodo ̄ros of Tralleis (ca 550 – 600 CE) Grammatikos who compiled or penned 30 epigrams presenting arithmetical puzzles of a ...

Mı ̄nara ̄ja (ca 300 – 325 CE) Mı ̄nara ̄ja was a yavana ̄dhira ̄ja, i.e., person of authority in the settlements of Greeks unde ...

immoderately enriched the Roman Republic. Like contemporary kings (A, A, and N), he practiced pharmacy, ...

“discutient” (a common property in salves and plasters before 1920, when they were some- times termed “resolvents,” drugs that c ...

and procreation were not rational faculties but sensory faculties shared by all animals (-G H. P. 24 = Diels 18 ...

reveals the importance given to wine both as nutriment and as drug (frr.41, 45–47). More general texts are On Edibles or On the ...

dislocations of the thigh. He, or P, invented the thaïs bandage: pseudo-Gale ̄n, de Fasciis 16 (18A.789 K.). Michler (1 ...

Moskhio ̄n or Moskhos (220 – 180 BCE) Moskhio ̄n’s treatise Me ̄khanika described every aspect of the construction of H II ...

Mousaios “the boxer” (350 BCE – 75 CE) Prescribed the rubbing of decapitated muloikon beetles on the skin, for lepra, according ...

diagnosis and therapy on a par with human medicine. Accordingly, medical historians must pay more attention to this source than ...

Ed.: FGrHist 477; PGR 29 – 30. RE 18.3 (1949) 1137–1166 (§7, 1143), K. Ziegler; Giannini (1964) 116–117; S. Jackson, Myrsilus of ...

N Naburianos (Naburimannu) of Babylo ̄n (ca 50 BCE) Known to Greeks as a Babylonian mathe ̄matikos (astronomer), together with K ...

Nausiphane ̄s of Teo ̄s (340 – 320 BCE) De ̄mokritean philosopher and teacher of the atomist E, he was influenced by the ...

the Anabasis Alexandrou and in the Indika. Nearkhos’ account was skeptical of superstitions and full of observed detail. He desc ...