Flora Unveiled
208 i Flora Unveiled Burkert, W. (1992), The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Arc ...
The “Plantheon” j 209 209 209 Detienne, The Gardens of Adonis. Ovid, Metamorphosis, Book X, trans. Horace Gregory. ht t ps:// a ...
i 210 8 Plant Sex from Empedocles to Theophrastus The sixth century bce marked a turning point in intellectual history throughou ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 211 211 211 For grasshoppers sit only for a month Chirping upon twigs; but our Athenians Sit c ...
212 i Flora Unveiled Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos and studied with Thales and Anaximander. According to tradition, ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 213 213 213 Whenever one body part saw another it fell in love with it, and the parts would ma ...
214 i Flora Unveiled into a scheme including the four elements and the four qualities of matter (Figure 8.1). This scheme was us ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 215 215 215 combined with reason and logic were the most reliable guides to truth. In his trea ...
216 i Flora Unveiled wisdom that plants obtained all their nourishment from the soil. He knew nothing about photosynthesis— the ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 217 217 217 which can move about, the sexes are separated, one individual being male and one f ...
218 i Flora Unveiled The female “semen,” which forms the embryo, corresponds to the menses. The male semen, according to Aristot ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 219 219 219 Aristotle never mentioned hybridization of plants for the simple reason that hybri ...
220 i Flora Unveiled God next commands “every living thing that moveth” (animals) to “be fruitful and mul- tiply.” In contrast, ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 221 221 221 this men take for a sign whether the tree has blossomed well; for if the flower is ...
222 i Flora Unveiled A difference common to all [trees] is the way in which people distinguish female and male, of which the for ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 223 223 223 during his discussions of fruit shedding and the phenomenon of “degeneration” in f ...
224 i Flora Unveiled branches of the date- bearing palm, to let the gall- fly enter the dates and ripen them, and to prevent the ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 225 225 225 Rather than apply a sexual theory based on date palms to figs, Theophrastus chose ...
226 i Flora Unveiled characteristics of the cultivated tree (from a human perspective) were usually lost in seed- grown trees, t ...
From Empedocles to Theophrastus j 227 227 227 The Plays of Aristophanes (1949), Vol. 1, trans. J. H. Frere, Everyman’s Library, ...
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