How To Use Theophrastus In A Sentence
-
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
-
Theophrastus sustained the Aristotelian character of the Lyceum.
-
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,
Life of Robert Browning
-
Aristotle, Theophrastus, Theodectes, and Ephorus, the most suitable of all for an oration, either at the beginning or in the middle; they think that it is very suitable for it at the end also; in which place the cretic appears to me to be better.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
-
During the first trip he learnt from a monk more than 100 names of plants, most of them staying unaltered and uncorrupted from the ancient names of Theophrastus and Dioscorides.
-
In confirmation hereof, Theophrastus, being asked on a time what kind of beast or thing he judged a toyish, wanton love to be? he made answer, that it was a passion of idle and sluggish spirits.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
-
And it is wonder to tell a thing, that Theophrastus saith and telleth that bear's flesh sodden that time (of their sleeping) vanisheth if it be laid up, and is no token of meat found in the almery, but a little quantity of humour ....
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
-
Theophrastus, who is the primary basis of the doxographical tradition, says that it was Parmenides who discovered the sphericity of the earth
Pythagoras
-
Gally, who sets up Theophrastus as his model, apparently fails to realize that a "humourist" like Sir Roger verges on individuality.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725)
-
In fact, the name dianthus, coined by Greek botanist Theophrastus, is derived from the Greek words dios (divine) and anthos (flower).
What in Carnation?
