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

complex array of regular circular motions. Once the paradigm of regular circular motion is established, an enormously successful ...

C. Plinius Secundus of Novum Comum (43 – 79 CE) Wrote Naturalis Historia (NH), a 37-volume compendium of knowledge about the nat ...

As the Hellenistic period saw the methodical collection of knowledge in royal libraries, Rome’s ascendancy was marked by the app ...

philosophy, while his pupils raised questions and argued for their views (ibid. 13, 18). Suffering from a serious disease, in 27 ...

Platonism, Neo-Platonism, a label to be used with caution: first because Plo ̄tinos did not aim to create a new interpretation o ...

by the skepticism of the Hellenistic Academy and especially by the fallibilism character- izing its final phase. Any enquiry int ...

of “Eclecticism” (1988) 126–144; P.L. Donini, “I fondamenti della fisica e la teoria delle cause in Plutarco,” in I. Gallo, ed., ...

S  N, and T  M), the great majority of them have long since been exposed as figments of the autho ...

As an ethicist, Polemo ̄n is associated with the idea that, whereas virtue is the most important object of pursuit, being suffic ...

Ed.: R. Hoyland, “A New Edition and Translation of the Leiden Polemon,” and A. Ghersetti, “The Istanbul Polemon ( TK Recension): ...

Pollis (or Polle ̄s?) (300 – 25 BCE) Compiled rules of architectural symmetry and proportion (V 7.pr.14), perhaps identi ...

home to Arkadia. When the war resumed, Polubios came to Carthage and after its destruc- tion in 146 BCE he went on a voyage of d ...

K. separates them neatly: Polubos admits four qualities (hot, cold, dry, moist) and four substances (yellow bile, black bile, ph ...

metria) of the members: of finger to finger, of all the fingers to the palm and wrist, of these to forearm, of forearm to upper ...

seems otherwise unattested, and may be distorted from, e.g, Polustratos (though no pharmacist by that name is otherwise known) o ...

Pompeius Trogus (30 BCE – 10 CE) Roman historian of Gallic descent living in the Augustan age, author of a 44-book histor- ical ...

Positing a spherical Earth without much considering the mathematical ramifications of sphericity, he divides the world into two ...

tem. He died before Rome, in the third Punic War, could carry out his famous demand that Karthago delenda est. Cato’s most signi ...

the cost of shipping and handling (20). His treatise may also contain the earliest mention of the donkey mill – the first mill o ...

Porphurios was a man of formidable talent and learning, as his surviving work shows. He wrote commentaries on P’s dialogues ...