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  1. George Eliot (6014 bytes)
    10: ...orced, and so he remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
    23: As an author, Eliot was not only very successful in sales, but she was, and remai...
    46: * ''[[Impressions of Theophrastus Such]]'' (1879)
  2. Botany (8977 bytes)
    51: ...n around [[300 BC]], are two large treatises by [[Theophrastus]]: ''On the History of Plants'' (''[[Historia Pla...
  3. Geology (12007 bytes)
    12: The work on rocks ''Peri lithōn'' by [[Theophrastus]], a student of [[Aristotle]], remained authorita...
  4. Cyperus papyrus (4281 bytes)
    27: .... nanus'' or ''C. profiler'', typically grows to only 1 m tall.
    32: ...here in ancient times it was widely cultivated. [[Theophrastus]]' "History of Plants" (Book iv. 10) states that ...
    34: ...dan]]), sails, mats, cloth, cordage, and sandals. Theophrastus states that King Antigonus made the rigging of hi...
  5. Anaximander (3421 bytes)
    6: ..., and which he probably invented) is an endless, unlimited mass ([[apeiron]]), subject to neither old ...
    14: ...s found in nature — for example, water can only be wet, never dry — and therefore, it can ...
    28: ...e of Anaximander's ideas were also preserved in [[Theophrastus]]'s (lost) history of philosophy, and re-quoted b...
  6. Andronicus of Rhodes (674 bytes)
    3: the writings of [[Aristotle]] and [[Theophrastus]] with materials
  7. History of science (41710 bytes)
    40: .... Initially these universities were organized to only teach [[theology]], but people like [[Roger Baco...
    78: ...sults by introducing discrete energy levels. Not only did [[quantum mechanics]] show that the laws of ...
    91: ...ls provided a ready supply of products which not only provided energy, but also synthetic materials fo...
    100: The work on rocks ''Peri lithōn'' by [[Theophrastus]], remained authoritative for millennia: its inte...
    117: ...reciated by his contemporaries and came into use only with discoveries of British surgeon [[Joseph Lis...
  8. Meteorology (19082 bytes)
    10: ... work, called "Book of Signs", was published by [[Theophrastus]], a pupil of Aristotle. It was centered more on ...
    14: ...nological advances that are usually thought of mainly as part of the progression of [[physics]] were [...
    32: ...re can reach unprecedented accuracy. This is not only due to the enhanced spatial and temporal resolut...
    42: ... the amount of precipitation (which as of now is only possible with [[rain gauge]]s), this would be be...
    44: ...tures in a forecast are nearly certain or rather unlikely and also allow extreme events to be picked u...
  9. Aristotle (37648 bytes)
    8: ...aedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few other writer...
    10: ...ant. Though the early dialogues are concerned mainly with methods of acquiring knowledge and most of ...
    12: ...texts used by his students, and were almost certainly revised repeatedly over the course of years. As ...
    19: ...scripts of his works, was left to his successor [[Theophrastus]] and was later hidden to avoid confiscation or d...
    23: .... At the end of the century, however, [[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius|Boethius]] undertook to tra...
  10. Garlic (12167 bytes)
    8: ...es" by cooks, are the part of the plant most commonly eaten, though some cooks also use the early spri...
    32: ...stration of the effects of garlic that meets commonly accepted scientific standards.
    47: ...nes at cross-roads, as a supper for [[Hecate]] ([[Theophrastus]], ''Characters, l~.eunbcuuoviac''); and accordin...
    76: The types differ not only in culinary qualities, but in storage potential....
  11. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    214: *[[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius]], (AD 480-524 or 525){{fn|...
    313: *[[Stanley Cavell]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    859: *[[William Stanley Jevons]], (1835-1882){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}
    1061: *[[Philipp Mainl䮤er]]
    1252: *[[Richard Stanley Peters]], (born 1919){{fn|O}}
  12. Atlantis (41399 bytes)
    12: ...]]'' (21e - 25d) and his ''[[Critias]]'' are the only written accounts of Atlantis; in these Plato giv...
    20: ...nd described a class of [[earthquake]]s that suddenly, by a violent motion, opened up huge mouths and ...
    21: A fragmentary work of [[Theophrastus]] of [[Lesbos]] tells about the colonies of Atlan...
    23: ...world: it showed an inner continent, a compact mainland surrounded by sea, and this was surrounded by ...
    36: ...ct that is absent in Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat to the Greeks), and describ...
  13. Scallion (1812 bytes)
    17: ...''askolonion'' as described by the Greek writer [[Theophrastus]]; this name, in turn, seems to originate from th...
  14. History of ecology (10158 bytes)
    1: ... of whom had interest in many species of animals. Theophrastus described interrelationships between animals and ...
    21: ...]. After observing the fact that life developed only within strict limits of each compartment that ma...
    37: ...iven environment (in [[equilibrium]]) there will only be one form of organization ([[isomorphism]]). O...
    51: ... terms "biological diversity" -- or now more commonly [[biodiversity]] -- in the [[1980s]]. These ter...
  15. Mauryan (48769 bytes)
    38: ...E, after conquering the Nanda Empire when he was only about 20 years old.
    85: [[Image:MauryanCastCopperCoinLate3rdCenturyBCE.jpg|thumb|left|Mauryan cast coppe...
    117: ...[[Kautilya]]'s ''[[Arthashastra]]'' contains not only maxims on ancient statecraft, but also unambiguo...
    169: :"And Theophrastus says that some contrivances are of wondrous effic...

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