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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

Theophrastus of Eresus

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 Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• "Theophrastus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Theophrastus," in Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, (ed.) by John Francis Waller and John Eadie, Glasgow: W. Mackenzie (1876)
• "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