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

Abiyu ̄n al-Bit ̇ rı ̄q (ca 630 CE) “Apio ̄n the Patricius,” at the time of the advent of Islam, mentioned by Ibn-al-Nadı ̄m and ...

(2.2–3) and then lists the signs in the unusual order from toes to head (2.4–30) as well as color, hair, stride, voice and the l ...

difficult passages and facets – of P’s Timaeus is attested. This commentary is quoted by Porphurios and transcribed by T ...

The four-page fragment from the second book of Aelianus’ Timaeus commentary quoted by Porphurios (33.16–37.5 Düring) is concerne ...

5.56), but his “personal contribution to science” (prologue) lies in literary achievement and scientific popularization. Mixing ...

other exotic ingredients in compounding effective cough drops and other medicines that soothed the windpipe. RE 1.1 (1893) 492–4 ...

named). He expresses personal views and practices desultorily (e.g. 1.28.5, 2.9.1, 4.10.24). His is not the world of large (and ...

Aethicus Ister (650 – 800 CE?) The purported author, otherwise unknown, of a Latin Cosmographia written in the late 7th or 8th c ...

I S’ Eclogae Physicae. Aëtios presents various philosophical views in short thematic entries on cosmology and (me ...

Aetiou tou Amide ̄nou Biblion IA, in Oeuvres de Rufus d’Éphèse (1879; repr. 1963) 85–131; S. Zervos, “Aetiou Amide ̄nou Logos En ...

P. De Lagarde, Symmicta 1 (1874) 166–176; RE 1.1 (1893) 715–716 (#7), M. Wellmann; BNP 1 (2002) 300 – 301 (#1), V. Nutton. Mauro ...

He ̄rakleide ̄s and that he lived for some time in Athens, probably after being exiled by Ptolemy VIII in 145 BCE. Only minor fr ...

A to P and describes the continents, winds, seas, length of the oikoumene ̄ (in stades), and perimeters of ...

RE 1.1 (1893) 745, M. Wellmann; KP 1.117 (#2), Fr. Kudlien; Kudlien (1968) 1098; DSB 1.74–75, Idem; OCD3 36, J.T. Vallance; BNP ...

RE 1.1 (1893) 759 (#33), E. Oder. PTK and GLIM Agathokle ̄s of Khios (325 – 90 BCE) Authored a treatise on agriculture possibly ...

Agennius Urbicus (390 – 410 CE) The earliest MSS transmitting the most important remains of the ancient Latin prose treatises on ...

cataracts, invented by Aglaias himself (v. 4). A  A (7.101, CMG 8.2, p. 351) quotes in prose the same prescription (n ...

Medical Curriculum,” Medical History 20 (1976) 235–258; M.E. Vázquez Buján, “El Hipócrates de los comentarios atribuidos al Circ ...

become pathological, e.g. if the residues are not yet expulsed and an excess of nourishment intervenes. He was considered wrongl ...

Aineios (of Ko ̄s?) (10 BCE – 110 CE) K, in Gale ̄n CMLoc 2.2 (12.589–590 K.) cites from Aineios a decongestant, contain- ...