Theophrastus
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC) · Academics · Lived 371 BC to 287 BC · aged 84
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Something wrong?Aristotle's successor at the Lyceum wrote the first systematic studies of plant life - two treatises that stood as botany's foundation for centuries and earned him a nickname still used today.
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, The Unseasonable man is one who will go up to a busy person, and open his heart to him. He will serenade his mistress when she has a fever.
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
About this person
Born Tyrtamos in Eresos around 371 BC, he came to Athens young and studied under Plato before attaching himself to Aristotle, who admired his eloquence enough to rename him Theophrastus - "divine speaker." When Aristotle fled Athens, Theophrastus inherited the Lyceum and ran it for thirty-six years, during which the Peripatetic school flourished. His "Enquiry into Plants" and "On the Causes of Plants" laid botany's groundwork, and his range stretched wide: ethics, metaphysics, grammar, logic, stones, the senses. He saw space as the arrangement of bodies, time as motion's shadow, happiness as shaped by circumstance as much as virtue. Athens gave him a public funeral around 287 BC.
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