In 345 B.C.E., two men took a trip that changed the way we make sense of the natural world. Their names were Theophrastus and Aristotle, and they were staying on Lesbos, the Greek island where tens of ...

Lynx urine is transformed into lyngurium stone, in a 13th-century miniature. Credit: Bodleian Library, Oxford Universidy / Wikimedia Commons Its legend goes back to the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, ...

ENGLISH botanists are under a great debt of obligation to Sir Arthur Hort for this edition of some of the principal works of Theophrastus, and they are also greatly indebted to Sir William ...

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PROF. GUSTAV SENN, of Basle, has published a short but interesting note on this subject (Verh. Schweiz. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Solothurn, p.372; 1936). Theophrastus mentions, in his “Historia ...