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

Theophrastos
Theophrastos, pseudo

Vicellius

Metrology (29) (authors and works on systems of units and their relations, whether of
length, area, volume, or weight); most entries by de Nardis:

Adamantios Ioudaios
Africanus
Agennius Urbicus
Ammo ̄n of Rome
Arruntius Celsus
Balbus
Carmen de Ponderibus
Dardanios
Didumos of Alexandria
Diodo ̄ros
Dioskouride ̄s
Epiphanios
Eusebios (pseudo)
Hyginus
Hyginus Gromaticus

Hyginus, pseudo

Innocentius

Sex. Iulius Africanus

Sex. Iulius Frontinus

M. Iunius Nipsus

Kleopatra

Kurillos

Polukleitos of Argos (?)

Priscianus of Caesarea

Remmius Fauinus

Siculus Flaccus

Silanio ̄n (?)

Victorius

L. Volusius Maecianus

Optics (32) (authors and writings on geometrical optics, i.e., of perspective, surveying, and
mirrors; refraction in a very few cases; we include here writings on color); many writers on
optics are also writers on Mathematics, and discussions of optical phenomena often
became discussions of Meteo ̄rologika (writers on proportion and symmetry are filed with
Architecture):

Agatharkhos of Samos
Anthe ̄mios
Apollodo ̄ros of Seleukeia
Aristombrotos
Aristotelian Corpus, Colors
Aristotle
Censorinus (I)
Damianos
De ̄mokleitos
De ̄mokritos of Abde ̄ra
Diokle ̄s
“Dtrums”
Empedokle ̄s
Epicurus
He ̄liodo ̄ros of Larissa
He ̄ro ̄n of Alexandria

Hestiaios

Hiero ̄numos of Rhodes

Hippokrate ̄s of Khios

Kleandros

Kleoxenos

P. Hibeh

P. Louvrensis 7723

P. Osloensis 73

P. Oxy. 13.1609

Philippos of Opous

Plato

Plutarch

Ptolemy of Alexandria

Puthio ̄n of Thasos

Theophrastos

Ze ̄nodo ̄ros (?)

Paradoxography (61) (authors and writings on paradoxa of the natural world, embody-
ing collections of alleged observations serving to call into question or limit the comprehen-

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