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Theophrastus

NOUN
  1. Greek philosopher who was a student of Aristotle and who succeeded Aristotle as the leader of the Peripatetics (371-287 BC)

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  • Theophrastus shared in, continued, and extended Aristotle's activity in every subject.
  • Aristotle, Theophrastus, Chamaeleon, and Hieronomus wrote essays on drunkenness. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
  • The Greek philosopher Theophrastus described a method for preparing mercury by rubbing cinnabar with vinegar in a clay dish.
  • Theophrastus being asked on a time, What kind of beast or thing he judged a toyish, wanton love to be? he made answer, Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
  • According to Linnaeus, Theophrastus is the father of Botany; he is also considered as the founder of several disciplines of plant biology, such as morphology, physiology, taxonomy, phytogeography, seed biology, and plant ecology.
  • On Aristotle's death, his friend and pupil Theophrastus assumed his mantle, and under him the Lyceum remained a focus of scientific and philosophical study.
  • [18] It is possible that Theophrastus derived the word pericarp from The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
  • For according to Theophrastus, a jeer is a figurative reproach for some fault or misdemeanor; and therefore he that hears it supplies the concealed part, as if he knew and gave credit to the thing. Essays and Miscellanies
  • According to Theophrastus, the stone which he calls emerald, and from which large obelists were cut, must have been an imperfect jasper. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • Readers interested in the known facts concerning the “master-mind, the thinker, the explorer, the creator,” the forerunner of Mesmer and even of Darwin and Wallace, who began life with the sounding appellation “Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus ab Hohenheim,” should consult Browning's own learned appendical note, and Mr. Berdoe's interesting essay in the Browning Society Papers, No. xlix.] Life of Robert Browning
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