In French literature: La Bruyere, Les Caracteres ou les moeurs de ce siecle, first published 1688, "The Characters, or Manners of the Age." Second publication with the addition in 1699 of Les Caracteres de Theophraste traduits du grec ("The Characters of
Theophrastus translated from the Greek").
and Richards, J.F.C., 1956,
Theophrastus On Stones: Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio, 238 p.
In the space of a paragraph he turns from the regretful acknowledgment of difference to an unabashedly savant discussion of
Theophrastus and a translation of his Characters.
Fruitlessly consulting the classical botanists Pliny and
Theophrastus, their Renaissance followers could not believe that maize was unknown to the Greeks and Romans.
In fact, the material's properties have been known since antiquity, and is mentioned in
Theophrastus, Cato, Varro, Pliny the Elder, Columella, and Plutarch, classical authors who lived and wrote between the 4th century B.C.
(3) I defend these remarks about the media of olfactory and auditory experience and add an important qualification in my paper "Aristotle and
Theophrastus on Sense-Perception through a Medium," Die Philosophie der Antike (forthcoming).
Philippus Aureolus
Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who took the name Paracelsus when he was about 20 years old, was born in 1493.
Plinius Secundus (1601 and 1634).(4) In Of Education, Milton writes that after a student learns grammar and reads Aristotle and
Theophrastus, 'The like accesse will be to Vitruvius, to Senecas naturall questions, to Mela, Celsus, Pliny, or Solinus'.
The Greek writer
Theophrastus (1916) reported the maximum yield for wheat in Babylon as 100-fold over what was sown.
With that in mind, the Greek botanist
Theophrastus bestowed the goddess's name on an extremely colorful group of flowers.
Hep!', a little-known essay from Eliot's last work, Impressions of
Theophrastus Such, explaining the claims of Jews to an understanding of their history and aspirations, is a little odd); Eliza Lynn Linton, with her hysterically anti-feminist essay, 'The Girl of the Period'; and 'New Women' of the 1890s such as Mona Caird, Sarah Grand, and Vernon Lee.