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Pedanius Dioscorides (Ancient Gr****: Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, Pedánios Dioskourídēs; c. 40–90 AD), "the
father of pharmacognosy", was a Gr**** physician,...
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Lucius Pedanius Secundus (d. AD 61) was a
Roman senator of the
first century. In AD 43,
during the
reign of Claudius, he was
consul suffectus from the...
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Philoponus and his
critiques of
Aristotelian physics, the
pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides, and
Ptolematic geography and
astronomy had an
important influence...
- (Ancient Gr****: Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, romanized: Perì hylēs iatrikēs) by
Pedanius Dioscorides in
uncial script. It is an
important and rare
example of a...
- De
materia medica,
written between 50 and 70 CE by the Gr****
physician Pedanius Dioscorides, was
widely read for more than 1,500 years. Al-Kindi's ninth...
- balm of fierabras. It was
written about by
Pliny the
Elder (23–79 CE) and
Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40 CE to c. 90 CE), a Gr****
botanist (amongst
other things)...
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Salinator may be the son of
Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator,
consul in 61, and is
thought to be the
father of
Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator,
consul in 118...
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obtained from them. The five-volume work was
written between 50 and 70 CE by
Pedanius Dioscorides, a Gr****
physician in the
Roman army. It was
widely read for...
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appears as far back as the
first century AD, when the Gr****
physician Pedanius Dioscorides cited it as one of the
terms used by the
Romans for the plant...
- "dolphin", a name used in De
Materia Medica for some kind of larkspur.
Pedanius Dioscorides said the
plant got its name
because of its dolphin-shaped flowers...
