Author:Theophrastus

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Theophrastus of Eresus
(c. 371 BCE – 287 BCE)

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Peripatetic Greek philosopher of Eresus (Eresos) and successor to Aristotle's Lycaeum

Works

"On the History of Physics" (Περὶ Φυσικῶν Ἱστοριῶν, Perì Physikṓn Historiṓn)
- Theophrastus of Eresus on Winds and on Weather Signs, translated by J. Wood and G.J. Simons (1894)
On the History of Plants (Περὶ Φυτῶν Ἱστορία, Perì Phytṓn Historía; Historia Plantarum)
- Enquiry into Plants, translated by A. Hort (1916)
On the Senses (Περὶ Αἰσθήσεων, Perì Aisthḗseōn)
- "On Sense Perception", from Theophrastus and the Greek Physiological Psychology before Aristotle, edited and translated by G.M. Stratton (1917)
The Characters of Theophrastus, edited and translated by J.M. Edmonds (1929)

Works about Theophrastus

"Theophrastus" in Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925)
“Theophrastus”, in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870

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