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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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    [paʁaˈtsɛlzʊs]; c. 1493 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician...
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    of an animal. Theophrastus made use of a variety of sources for the book, including Diocles on drugs and medicinal plants. Theophrastus claims to have...
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    features, and is not significantly eroded. LTO-43D3 Theophrastus — L&PI topographic map "Theophrastus (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS...
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    article: Theophrastus redivivus (currently under the process of community digitization) Theophrastus redivivus (meaning "The revived Theophrastus") is an...
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  • eponymous archon in the year 330 BCE. Second century BCE philosopher Theophrastus calls this Aristophon an orator. That this man, who was archon in the...
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  • 322 BC, his colleague Theophrastus succeeded him as head of the school. The most prominent member of the school after Theophrastus was Strato of Lampsacus...
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    Mineralogical Society of America. Retrieved 10 February 2021. Theophrastus. Theophrastus on Stones. Retrieved 10 December 2011 – via Farlang.com. Pliny...
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  • satirical character studies, Theophrastus Such focuses on various types of people he has observed in society. Usually, Theophrastus Such acts as a first-person...
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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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  • theophrastus is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Hering in 1926. It is found in Brazil. Savela, Markku. "Crocomela theophrastus...
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    Science. 2. doi:10.3389/fcosc.2021.785962. ISSN 2673-611X. Theophrastus, III.2.1, VI.3.3 Theophrastus, VI.3.5 Pliny, XXII, Ch. 49 Archived 2007-12-28 at the...
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    (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. Media related to Tarucus theophrastus at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Tarucus theophrastus at Wikispecies...
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    is a combination of those of both his parents. Theophrastus (2004), James Diggle (ed.), Theophrastus: Characters, Cambridge University Press, p. 366...
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    of large mammals. These localised naming systems are folk taxonomies. Theophrastus recorded evidence of a Greek folk taxonomy for plants, but later formalized...
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    Citron (section Theophrastus)
    the eastern Himalayas. It is thought that by the 4th century BC, when Theophrastus mentions the "Median apple." Despite its scientific designation, which...
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    target. He passed on his Lyceum to Theophrastus and died later that year in Chalcis, near his hometown. Theophrastus placed a provision in his will that...
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    which they ought not. — 1 Timothy 5:13 Theophrastus translated by Isaac Taylor (1831), The Characters of Theophrastus Jeannine K. Brown (2006), "Just a Busybody...
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    through the 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)...
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    in botany; Theophrastus is also named in his Indices, and Pliny had translated Theophrastus's Greek into Latin. Another work by Theophrastus, On Stones...
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  • Ferdinand Bordewijk Characters (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus Character (arts), an agent within...
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  • groups like the sharks and cetaceans, are commonly used. His student Theophrastus (Greece, 370–285 BC) carried on this tradition, mentioning some 500 plants...
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    merriam-webster.com. "the definition of salep". Dictionary.com. Dalby, p. 292; Theophrastus, 9.18.13; Pedanius Dioscorides, 3.126-8; Pliny the Elder, 26.95-98, 27...
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    resins has a very long history that was documented in ancient Greece by Theophrastus, in ancient Rome by Pliny the Elder, and especially in the resins known...
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    mentioned in The Iliad in around 800 BCE and in Historia Plantarum by Theophrastus, written between 350 and 287 BCE.: 13  The Portuguese words ervanço and...
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    two lineages of animals and plants were recognized by Aristotle and Theophrastus. The lineages were given the taxonomic rank of kingdom by Linnaeus in...
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    Greek and Roman times, when it was a well-established garden vegetable. Theophrastus mentions three kinds of rhaphanos (ῤάφανος): a curly-leaved, a smooth-leaved...
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    gift of the olive. According to the fourth-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age around 200 years, he mentions...
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    the writings of Bacchylides about 450 BC, and was also described by Theophrastus in his book On Stones (Ancient Greek title: Περὶ λίθων: Peri Lithon)...
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  • was the son of Coriscus of Scepsis. He was a disciple of Aristotle and Theophrastus, the latter of whom bequeathed to him his library, and appointed him...
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