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

Neilos (ca 250 – 300 CE) Alchemist and member of T’s alchemical milieu. Z  P, addressing Theosebeia, ...

for the senses” (Opif. 12.3). Nemesios states that all mental faculties lie specifically located in the three brain ventricles ( ...

N ⇒ C N Nepualios or Neptunianus (100 – 200 CE?) Authored a treatise On Antipathy and Sympathy or Phusika (I ...

Some anecdotes speak of his interest in divination: at the birth of Octauius (who became A), Nigidius is said to have pre ...

This could even be true for Ophiaka, Iaseo ̄n sunago ̄ge ̄, and the epic transposition of H-  C P. We are ...

Nikano ̄r of Samos (118 – 131 CE?) Wrote On rivers, in at least two books, quoted by -P, D F 17.2 (1160C) as ...

for medicines to treat jaundice (Askle ̄piade ̄s in Gale ̄n, CMLoc 9.1 [13.232–233 K.]) employ quantities (“handfuls”) of chickp ...

The hupothesis to Id. 11 recounts that Nikias replied to Theokritos with a short poem in hexameters; in the opening, preserved i ...

polygraph, he wrote comedies, tragedies, a comprehensive compilatory Universal history (144 books) from the beginning of the tim ...

Nikomakhos of Athens (ca 320 – 310 BCE) A’s son, by his concubine Herpullis, a minor at his father’s death, and who died ...

Nikome ̄de ̄s (ca 225 – 200 BCE) Mathematician, credited by later authors with inventing an easily constructed group of mechanic ...

Nikome ̄de ̄s IV of Bithunia (100 – 74 BCE) A, in G CMGen 6.14 (13.929 K.), records that some king Nikome ̄de ̄s, ...

N ⇒ N   A Nikostratos (Pharm.) (50 – 80 CE) A in G cites eight of his recipes: gout-ointment ...

(Bibl. 3 = FHG 4.178–180). In a lively style, Nonnosos describes elephants and pygmies, as well as the Arabian language and reli ...

Numisianus (130 – 150 CE) Student of Q, father of H, and teacher of P. Wrote commen- taries on the H ...

composed recipes for a wound poultice preserved by P 34.104 and a skin plaster quoted by A (in Gale ̄n CMGen 4.14 ...

O Ocellus Lucanus (200 – 50 BCE) Early Pythagorean (I V.Pyth. 267) under whose name is preserved an apoc- ryphal treati ...

heavens and is called a theologian. He probably belonged to the Ephesian Ofellius family. He is possibly also identical with Lae ...

Olumnios of Alexandria (400 – 650 CE) Olumnios’ Alexandrine origin indicates a terminus ante quem and suggests his participation ...

Olumpikos (300 BCE – 77 CE) Wrote On stones (P 1.ind.37). Wellmann has unconvincingly identified him with O  M ...