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    Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (‹See Tfd›Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's...
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  • Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus) (also called Enquiry into Plants), a book on plants by Theophrastus, written between c. 350 BC and c. 287 BC Historia Plantarum...
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    Aristotle who took to Theophrastus in his writings. When Aristotle fled Athens, Theophrastus took over as head of the Lyceum. Theophrastus presided over the...
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    Literature Desi Sangye Gyatso, author of a Tibetan herbal Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus book) Similar plants and products Elemi, resin or tree Myrrh...
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    1495–1496 Thesaurus, Corn of Amalthea and Gardens of Adones, 1496 Historia Plantarum, Theophrastus, 1497 Dictionarium Graecum, I. Crastonus, 1497 Hours of the...
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    (1998), pp. 83–110. Theophrastus (1916) [4th century BC]. Hort, Arthur (ed.). Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία [Historia plantarum (Theophrastus: Enquiry into Plants...
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    published two botanical works in his lifetime, Historia plantarum et vires (1541) and the Catalogus plantarum (1542) in four languages. It was in the last...
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    zoology form about a quarter of his surviving work. Aristotle's pupil Theophrastus later wrote a similar book on botany, Enquiry into Plants. In the History...
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  • Hippothoon Hippothous Hippotion Hippotomadae Histiaeotis Histiaeus Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus book) Historicity of the Homeric epics Histories (Herodotus)...
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    S2CID 33447866. Historia plantarum 4.4.2–3 (exc. Athenaeus Deipnosophistae 3.83.d-f); cf. Vergil Georgics 2.126-135; Pliny Naturalis historia 12.15,16. "Welcome...
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  • into Greek at the Renaissance by a Greek resident in Italy." Historia plantarum (Theophrastus) Andrea Cesalpino (wrote De Plantis Libri XVI in 1583) Barnes...
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    medica. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis historia. Pseudo-Apuleius. Herbarium Apuleii Platonici. Theophrastus. Historia plantarum. Look up Saloop in Wiktionary,...
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  • agriculture, who lived before the time of Theophrastus. Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum ii. 8 Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants iii. 15 Athenaeus...
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    erebinthos, mentioned in The Iliad in around 800 BCE and in Historia Plantarum by Theophrastus, written between 350 and 287 BCE.: 13  The Portugese words...
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    described by both Greek (Theophrastus (371–287 BC) and Discorides (40–90 AD)) and Roman (Pliny (23–79 AD)) writers. Theophrastus described Scilla hyacinthoides...
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    The peripatetic philosopher Theophrastus (372–287 BC), as a student of Aristotle in Ancient Greece, wrote Historia Plantarum, the earliest surviving treatise...
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    Greeks and the Romans. It is mentioned by the Greek polymath Theophrastus in his Historia Plantarum, written in c.300 BC, as "bee-leaf" (μελισσόφυλλον). Lemon...
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    mention of poet's daffodil is likely in the Historia Plantarum (VI.6.9), the main botanical writing of Theophrastus (371 – c. 287 BCE), who wrote about a spring-blooming...
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    The smooth wood of the tree is mentioned by Theophrastus in his Enquiry into Plants (Historia Plantarum) as formerly being used to make weaving spindles...
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  • His student Theophrastus (Greece, 370–285 BC) carried on this tradition, mentioning some 500 plants and their uses in his Historia Plantarum. Several plant...
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    knowledge. Theophrastus's major botanical works were the Enquiry into Plants (Historia Plantarum) and Causes of Plants (Causae Plantarum) which were...
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    large doses it was said to excite delirium and madness. Theophrastus (d. c. 287 BC) Historia Plantarum wrote that the mandragora needed to be harvested by...
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    volume in 1697. In his autobiography, Malpighi speaks of his Anatome Plantarum, decorated with the engravings of Robert White, as "the most elegant format...
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    to freshen breath and clean teeth. Mnesimachus, Aristotle, Theophrastus (Historia Plantarum), Herodotus, and Strabo mention the storax tree and its balsam...
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    writings went to Theophrastus (Aristotle's successor as head of the Lycaeum and the Peripatetic school). After the death of Theophrastus, the peripatetic...
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    more than 7000 years old. The 9/10 remaining volumes of Historia Plantarum, written by Theophrastus, early philosopher, botanist, and student of Aristotle...
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  • Archaeology and Anthropology. pp. 38–50. Retrieved 2023-04-12. Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum 9.18.4 Scarborough, John (2013). "Adaptation of Folk Medicines...
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  • timeline of illustrated botanical works to 1900. Enquiry into Plants Theophrastus (371—287 BCE) c. 77 De Materia Medica Dioscorides (40–90 CE) Naturalis...
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    times. Theophrastus recommended using the plant in oil and wine to treat the bites of vipers, spiders and pine caterpillars in his Historia Plantarum. In...
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    rei rusticae; Aristotle, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; Theophrastus's Historia plantarum, Eclogae physicae; Oppian...
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