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

Apollo ̄nios (Paradoxographer) (150 – 100 BCE?) Wrote Historiai thaumasiai in 51 chapters. The first six sections focus on six t ...

Organikos for anthrax; a machine-maker (organikos) might well have remarked upon ambe ̄. O, Coll. 48.41 (CMG 6.2.1, p. ...

myrrh (AM.24b von Staden). So ̄ranos (Gyn. 3.2 [CMG 4, pp. 94–95; CUF v. 3, p. 3]) cites him among physicians denying illnesses ...

Apollo ̄nios of Athens (130 – 70 BCE) Teacher of A, designed siege machines, making practical rather than theor- eti ...

19.347 K.), including a work On Joints (E, A-103 [p. 23 Nachm.]). C A attests to his work on pathology, ...

Elements XIII), as well as a study in the cylindrical helix (a response to Archime ̄de ̄s’ Spiral Lines?), a study of “unordered ...

Apollo ̄nios of Pergamon (Med.) (15 BCE – 182 CE) Greek physician quoted for scarification of the legs as a therapeutic method w ...

Ed.: U. Weisser, “Buch über der Schöpfung und die Darstellung der Natur” von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana (1979). GAS 4 (1971) 77 ...

myrrh, and the gum from Babul acacia (Acacia arabica Lam.), softened with salted wine (Gale ̄n, CMGen 5.11 [13.831 K.]). Apollop ...

CHG vv.1– 2 passim; Björck (1932) 64–87; Idem (1944); BNP 1 (2002) 916 (#2), A.-M. Doyen-Higuet; McCabe (2007) 122–155. Anne McC ...

seducing her by magic. His Apologia (De magia), our only source for this episode, recounts the trial at Sabratha in 158 or 159. ...

first of the very clipped 47 chapters (Ad capitis fracturam) is a Latin translation of the Greek in D 2.170. Many of ...

Arabic Translations (of Greek scientific works not extant in the original) Numerous Greek medical, scientific, and philosophical ...

catalogued MSS are imperfectly registered, so that more Arabic translations of hitherto unknown Greek works will surely be disco ...

He ̄rakleia, another disciple of Ze ̄no ̄n, either as a disciple or as a master, but surely as a friend. Indeed Aratos’ work was ...

Archime ̄de ̄s of Surakousai (ca 250 – 212 BCE) The most important scientist of antiquity. Biographic Evidence. Archime ̄de ̄s’ ...

II (CF I, II) (also a single work divided into two rolls); Stomakhion (Stom.); Cattle Problem (Bov.). DC contains obvious mistak ...

himself (in the introduction to Meth.). Archime ̄de ̄s has put his signature on this technique, through his wide ranging and ele ...

to say which of the text is by Archime ̄de ̄s and which by later commentators, considerably limiting our ability to judge Archim ...

Askle ̄piadean connections to Areios, but given Dioskouride ̄s’ criticism of Askle ̄piadean theories (Pr.2), Areios was not a st ...