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

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  • S.Ambrogio, Milan Ambrose Reproduced with kind permission of the Parrocchia di
  
  
  
  


• Anaximandros © Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier


• Andreas © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• Annaeus Seneca Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, NY


• Antiokhos VIII Courtesy of the American Numismatic Society


• Apollo ̄ nios “Mus” © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• Aratos Courtesy of the American Numismatic Society


• Aristarkhos of Samos: distances and sizes of Sun and Moon © Mendell


• Aristotle © Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


• Aristoxenos: the Great Perfect System © Rocconi


• Autolukos: On Risings and Settings © Mendell


• Diokle ̄ s’ Cissoid © Lehoux and Massie


• Dioskouride ̄ s of Anazarbos © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• Ennius © Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier


• Epicurus © Roma, Musei Capitolini, Archivo Fotografico dei Musei Capitolini
  
  
  • proportionals between magnitudes A and D © Jones Eratosthene ̄ s’ mechanical method of finding two mean
  
  
  
  


• One of Erukinos’ (?) paradoxes © Bernard


• Euclid’s geometric algebra (1. prop. 2) © Mueller


• Eudoxos of Knidos Portrait © Budapest Museum


• Eudoxos of Knidos: Hippopede © Mendell


• Gale ̄n © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• He ̄ rakleide ̄ s of Taras © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• He ̄ rakleitos’ neusis in a given square A∆ © Bernard
  
  
  • Museum of He ̄rakleion He ̄ rakleitos of Ephesos © Reproduced by kind permission of the Archaelogical
  
  
  
  


• Hermarkhos © Budapest Museum
  
  
  • Culturali Naples, Italy. Reproduced with permission of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività
  
  
  
  


• He ̄ro ̄ n of Alexandria: the baroulkos © Reproduced from Drachmann (1963)
  
  
  • Massie Ptolemy’s version of Hipparkhos’ model for solar motion © Lehoux and
  
  
  
  


• Hippokrates of Khios, 1 © Mueller


• Hippokrate ̄s of Khios, 2 © Mueller


• Hippokrate ̄s of Khios, 3a © Mueller


• Hippokrate ̄s of Khios, 3b © Mueller


• Hippokrate ̄s of Khios, 4 © Mueller


• Plan view of Clauicula and plan view of Coxa © Grillone


• Iouba II © Courtesy of the American Numismatic Society


• C. Iulius Caesar Courtesy of the Vatican Museums


• Kallimakhos of Kure ̄ne ̄ Photo: Ole Haupt, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek


• Karneade ̄s © Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig


• Kleopatra VII © Courtesy of the American Numismatic Society
  
  
  • permission from Thames & Hudson, O.A.W. Dilke, Greek and Roman Maps Krate ̄s of Mallos: the four inhabited oikoumenai Reproduced with kind
  
  
  
  


• Krateuas © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
  
  
  • Kleinasien und Nordsyrren (1890) “Lion Horoscope” Reproduced from K. Humann and O. Puchstein, Reisen in
  
  
  
  


• Mantias © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
  
  
  • Massie Ptolemy’s version of part of the theorem of Menelaus © Lehoux and
  
  
  • Archaeological Museum, Athens Me ̄trodo ̄ros of Lampsakos Reproduced with kind permission of the National
  
  
  
  


• Nikandros © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• Nikome ̄de ̄s’ “first” conchoid © Lehoux and Massie


• Pamphilos of Alexandria © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• Philo ̄n of Buzantion © Bayerische StaatsBibliothek


• Plato © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge


• Ptolemy’s model for the motion of Mars © Jones


• Rufus of Ephesos © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• Sextius Niger © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
  
  
  • Capitolini Theo ̄n of Smurna Roma, Musei Capitolini, Archivo Fotografico dei Musei
  
  
  
  


• Thucydide ̄s of Athens © Holkham Hall
  
  
  • speciale per il Polo Museale fiorentino M. Tullius Cicero Reproduced with permission of the Soprintendenza
  
  
  
  


• Vergilius Reproduced with permission, Musée national du Bardo


• Analemma (geometry of sundial construction) from Vitr. 9.7.1– 7 © Howe


• Xenokrate ̄s of Aphrodisias © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek


• Ammi, Mount Athos


• Ammo ̄niakon, Mount Athos


• Amo ̄mon, Mount Athos


• Euphorbia, Mount Athos


• Malabathron, Mount Athos


• Sagape ̄non, Mount Athos
  
  
  • © P. T. Keyser Number of scientists (with “narrow” date-ranges) per generation
  
  
  
  


• Number of scientists (with “wide” date-ranges) per century © P. T. Keyser