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

sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, touch), 36–38 human body (face, body and color of the skin). This treatise clearly postda ...

Audibilibus proposes instead that the impacts which constitute a sound are transmitted from the point of origin to the point of ...

pseudo-Aristotle, De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus (250 BCE – 200 CE) From Athe ̄naios (12 [541a–b]), and throughout late Antiqui ...

-A, O  K ⇒ K Aristotheros (ca 250 BCE?) According to S, In de cael. 2.1.2 (CAG 7 [1894] 504 ...

A. His failure to gain the Lyceum’s headship after his master’s death is promin- ent in the biographical sources because ...

so on); and melodic composition (melopoiïa, basically the use to which the notes are put in melodies). The discussion of the las ...

improve on contemporary accounts of the heavens (cf. A, Phain.) by mapping the celestial sphere scientifically (in prose: c ...

Arkhede ̄mos of Tarsos (175 – 125 BCE) Arkhede ̄mos studied Stoic philosophy under D  B and Z  T a ...

14th c. Constantinople, the Krale ̄, with which the Bolognese MS is linked, suggesting that Arkhelaos’ works were still in use a ...

with A (G); the fragments on lithika from Pliny are assigned to this work (37.46, 95, 104, 107). But as D ...

RE 2.1 (1895) 466 (#5), M. Wellmann; Manetti and Roselli (1994) 1536; Marganne (1998) 13–34; Ihm (2002) #17. Fabio Stok Arkhide ...

by types (kata genos pharmaka: Gale ̄n, CMLoc 1.8 [12.468 K.]), heavily extracted by Gale ̄n, and perhaps on medicines (Peri Boe ...

(arithmetic, geometry, harmonics, astronomy), which he regarded as akin (B1). He was the first to solve the famous problem of do ...

lyrischer Personnamen [1929]), the name is given by Kühn as “Arrabianus,” presumably due to “Arabianus,” attested from the 2nd c ...

Artemido ̄ros Capito (115 – 135 CE) Greek physician, relative of D  A (CMG 5.9.1, p. 113), together frequ ...

Artemido ̄ros of Ephesos (104 – 101 BCE) Greek geographer, author of an 11-book geographical description of the world preserved ...

Artemido ̄ros of Side ̄ (90 – 30 BCE) Follower of E, who wrote on pathology, explaining hudrophobia as an affec- tion ...

work we have two fragments preserved by Athe ̄naios, our main source on Artemo ̄n: the former is concerned with the musician Tim ...

In the A ̄ryabhat. ̄ıya, A ̄ryabhat ̇ a speaks of the diurnal rotation both as a rotation of the earth and as a rotation of the ...

Asarubas or Asdrubas (55 – 75 CE) Wrote on electrum, relaying that the mud of lake Cephesis – known to the Mauri as “Electrum” – ...