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

K, A, and -H: CAAG 2.79–85). Moreover, the struc- ture of this treatise remains on the whole disc ...

P and others. A few geographical remarks are preserved: fr.32 Blockley (Pho ̄tios, Bibl. pp. 179–180) on the Oasis i ...

Alexander’s ship on its trip down the Indus river, and was made chief pilot of the fleet in its journey from the Indus to the Eu ...

Ophella ̄s of Kure ̄ne ̄ (320 – 310 BCE) Ruler of Kure ̄ne ̄ 322 – 308 BCE (D  S 18.21, 20.40–42), composed a per ...

from the Mountains, Stories from the Sea. The Digressions and Similes of Oppian’s Halieutica and the Cynegetica (2003); BNP 10 ( ...

O ⇒ U Oreibasios of Pergamon (ca 350 – ca 400 CE) Born ca 325 CE, well-educated member of the non-Christian aristo ...

252 – 255; J. Bertier, “Reflets et inflexions des tendances théoriques de la médecine des enfants dans l’Oribase latin,” in Mudr ...

O ̄ros of Mende ̄s (300 BCE – 75 CE) P, listing him as a doctor providing drugs from animals (1.ind.29), cites his remedy fo ...

224 Kern). The Orphic Do ̄dekaete ̄ris treats Jupiter’s 12-Year Cycle wherein, allotting 120 years to the Great Year, the author ...

(14.144 K.), torn between disapproval and necessity of comprehensiveness, mentions Orpheus “Theologus,” with O ̄  M ( ...

end of the 1st c. CE and later refer to Ostane ̄s (sometimes with -Z) as an expert in astrology, magical amulets, ...

Med.: E.J. Kenney, Amores; Medicamina faciei femineae; Ars amatoria; Remedia amoris, 2nd ed. (1994). Hal.: T. Birth, De Halieuti ...

P P ⇒ A Paconius (80 – 25 BCE) To transport a marble pediment intended to replace the cracked base of the colossal ...

al-mawa ̄l ̄ıd, a large section of which survives in al-Da ̄magha ̄n ̄ı’s astrological “Collection” (written 1113 CE), in Hugo o ...

Decans and Hora ̄s,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 26 (1963) 223–254; Idem, The Thousands of Abu ̄ Ma’shar (19 ...

classical Indian astronomy that were apparently derived from Hellenistic spherical astron- omy models. These include large-integ ...

while Synkellos (Ec.Chron. 279 – 278, ed. Mosshammer) claims he was criticized for speaking plainly about alchemy. Probably not ...

( probably using data from D: Wellmann 1898 and ed. Dioskouride ̄s, v.3, pp. 327–329), not listed by the Souda. Gale ...

intervals exactly in half, and because “canonic theory,” on the other hand, denies that such a division is mathematically possib ...

also an elegant solution to the problem of finding in the same figure the geometrical, harmonic and arithmetical means between t ...