Theophrastus

In fact, the name dianthus, coined by Greek botanist Theophrastus, is derived from the Greek words dios (divine) and anthos (flower).

What in Carnation? Lettie Teague 2010

It remained, however, throughout antiquity as the most important work on its subject, and it entitles Theophrastus to be called the ` ` father of botany. ''

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

Budgell in the preface to "Theophrastus," a book which Addison has recommended, and which he was suspected to have revised, if he did not write it.

Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

_The Way of the World_, 1700) thought that the comic dramatist Menander formed his characters on "the observations of Theophrastus, of whom he was a disciple," and Budgell, who termed Theophrastus the father of modern comedy, believed that if some of Theophrastus's characters "were well worked up, and brought upon the British theatre, they could not fail of Success." [

A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) Henry Gally 1732

"It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

Kog Zadare, only living person... Kog Zadare 2010

Note 126: The ducal library possessed several works attributed to Theophrastus (372 – 287 bce): I.V. #211, 231, graec.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Theophrastus, sorry for the generalization, and thank you for the clarification.

Good vs. Evil, Indignation vs. Indigestion James F. McGrath 2009

Theophrastus, chronicler of Greek plants used in the third and fourth centuries BCE, advised that wild capers growing on rocky cliffs were pungent and delicious, while capers grown on cultivated land were much less desirable.

Recipes: Caper Tart & Capers and Eggs (Καπαρόπιτα & Κάπαρη με τ’Αυγά) Laurie Constantino 2007

As his explanations show, Alexander was fully familiar with the development of logic after Aristotle, under Theophrastus and the Stoics.

Alexander of Aphrodisias Frede, Dorothea 2009

Theophrastus, chronicler of Greek plants used in the third and fourth centuries BCE, advised that wild capers growing on rocky cliffs were pungent and delicious, while capers grown on cultivated land were much less desirable.

Archive 2007-12-01 Laurie Constantino 2007