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

patient is assisted with psychotherapy, physiotherapy, and diet to recover strength and to prepare the body for pharmacotherapy, ...

Pappos lists Aristaios’ Solid Loci in five books (also called Conic Elements: 7.29) after Apollo ̄n- ios’ Conics, the last work ...

were theories proposing the motion of the Earth (P, H). According to P (Platonic Questions, 1006C, an ...

the Earth and diameter are respectively between 18 and 20 times the Moon’s distance and diameter, and that the Sun’s diameter to ...

Aristeide ̄s (Paradoxographer) (250 BCE – 25 BCE) Among other authors discussing geographical properties and qualities of water, ...

Aristeide ̄s (of Knidos?) (360 – 325 BCE?) Cited twice by P for names of islands: 4.64 Euboia is “Long Island” (Makra), and ...

however, possibly be identified with a homonymous author whom Giannini lists among the non-specialist paradoxographical writers. ...

Aristogeito ̄n (of Boio ̄tian The ̄bai?) (60 – 75 CE) P 27.31 (cf. 1.ind.27), listing him after H, records that he pr ...

Aristokle ̄s of Messe ̄ne ̄ (Sicily) (1st c. CE?) Peripatetic philosopher who wrote a treatise On Philosophy in ten books, trans ...

adding new bees to a colony that had grown old (Pliny, 13.131–132, C, 9.13.8–9). His work also dealt with trees, the cul ...

wills of earlier Peripatetic scholarchs and may have written about H, So ̄crate ̄s and/or E. Stoics in the nex ...

(1.1–27), generation (1.27–97), and sensational peculiarities of men (1.98–113) and animals (1.114–154). Book 2, altered in the ...

A  S ⇒ A Aristotle (355 – 322 BCE) Aristotele ̄s; born 384 BCE in Stageira, son of N, a Mac ...

locomotion. Aristotle also adapts Plato’s demiurge (Timaios) and his Forms into a dynamic conception of the good. Natural, like ...

(hot-cold, wet-dry) accounts for change among the elements. Terrestrial changes are driven ultimately by the northward and south ...

hypothetical necessity: if an animal is to discharge a certain function, it must have such and such a material constitution. Ari ...

Ed.: W.S. Hett, Aristotle, On the Soul, Parva Naturalia, On Breath, rev. ed. (Loeb 1957); A. Roselli, [Aristotle], De spiritu (1 ...

and the Persian Gulf are not yet considered branches of the Indian Ocean, as became standard after Alexander’s expedition to Ind ...

a concatenation of points (971a6–972a13); a point cannot be added to or subtracted from a line (972a13–30); a point is not a min ...

Aristotele, Mechanica (1982: provides the most detailed apparatus; however, Bottecchia also integrates in her lemmata a MS of Bo ...