Modern botany traces its roots back more than twenty three centuries, to the Father of Botany, Theophrastus ( c. 371 – 287 BC ), a student of Aristotle.

This Cyprian Aphrodite is the same as the later Hermaphroditos, which simply means Aphroditos in the form of a herm ( see Hermae ), and first occurs in the Characters ( 16 ) of Theophrastus.

The earliest mention of Hermaphroditus in Greek literature is by the philosopher Theophrastus ( 3rd century BC ), in his book The Characters, XVI The Superstitious Man, in which he portrays various types of eccentric people.

In The Characters ( c. 319 BC ), Theophrastus introduced the “ character sketch ,” which became the core of “ the Character as a genre .” It included 30 character types.

Theophrastus ( Greek: ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC ), a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.

Theophrastus has found many imitators in this kind of writing, notably Joseph Hall ( 1608 ), Sir Thomas Overbury ( 1614 – 16 ), Bishop Earle ( 1628 ), and Jean de La Bruyère ( 1688 ), who also translated the Characters.

The Metaphysics ( nine chapters ) was considered a fragment of a larger work by Usener in his edition ( Theophrastos Metaphysica, Bonn, 1890 ), but according to Ross and Fobes in their edition ( Theophrastus Metaphysica, Oxford, 1929 ), the treatise is complete ( p. X ) and this opinion is now widely accepted.

*" Theophrastus " entry in the Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, edited by George Long, ( 1842 ), Volume 24, pages 332-4

* Theophrastus, ( 1993 ), Metaphysics.

* Theophrastus, ( 1916 ), Enquiry into Plants: Books 1-5.

* Theophrastus, ( 1916 ), Enquiry into Plants: Books 6-9 ; Treatise on Odours ; Concerning Weather Signs.

* Theophrastus, ( 1989 ), De Causis Plantarum: Books 1-2.

* Theophrastus, ( 1990 ), De Causis Plantarum: Books 3-4.

* Theophrastus, ( 1990 ), De Causis Plantarum, Books 5-6.

* Theophrastus, ( 2002 ), On Sweat, On Dizziness and On Fatigue.

* Theophrastus, ( 2007 ), On weather signs.

* Theophrastus, ( 2010 ), On First Principles ( known as his Metaphysics ).

* Theophrastus of Eresus on winds and on weather signs, ( 1894 ), by J. G. Wood, G. J. Symons, at the Internet Archive.

* Theophrastus and the Greek physiological psychology before Aristotle, by George Malcolm Stratton, ( 1917 ), at the Internet Archive.

* The Characters of Theophrastus, translated by J. M. Edmonds, ( 1929 ), at the Internet Archive.

* The Characters, a book by the Greek philosopher Theophrastus

* A Book of ' Characters ' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle

Theophrastus depicts in his Characters ( IV, 2 – 3 ) a peasant whose thyme breath inconveniences his neighbours at the Ecclesia.

The book has been regarded by some as an independent work ; others incline to the view that the sketches were written from time to time by Theophrastus, and collected and edited after his death ; others, again, regard the Characters as part of a larger systematic work, but the style of the book is against this.

George Eliot also took inspiration from Theophrastus ' Characters, most notably in her book of caricatures, Impressions of Theophrastus Such.

* Theophrastus work " The Characters " English translation

* The Characters of Theophrastus ( 1870 ), text, introduction, English translation and commentary ( re-edited by JE Sandys, 1909 )

* Theophrastus Characters, notes by Isaac Casaubon, Leyden 1638

This was followed in 1824 by a new translation of the Characters of Theophrastus ( by ‘ Francis Howell ,’ London ).

* Theophrastus Characters.

While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island.

Aristotle's notable students included Aristoxenus, Dicaearchus, Demetrius of Phalerum, Eudemos of Rhodes, Harpalus, Hephaestion, Meno, Mnason of Phocis, Nicomachus, and Theophrastus.

Amber is discussed by Theophrastus, possibly the first historical mention of the material, in the 4th century BC.

* Farlang many full text historical references on Amber Theophrastus, George Frederick Kunz, and special on Baltic amber.

The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

We know little more of the life of Andronicus, but he is of special interest in the history of philosophy, from the statement of Plutarch, that he published a new edition of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus, which formerly belonged to the library of Apellicon, and were brought to Rome by Sulla with the rest of Apellicon's library in 84 BC.

Key scientists in the history of botany include Theophrastus, Ibn al-Baitar, Carl Linnaeus, Gregor Johann Mendel, and Norman Borlaug.

He and his student Theophrastus made extensive observations on plant and animal migrations, biogeography, physiology, and on their behaviour, giving an early analogue to the modern concept of an ecological niche.

He acknowledged his debt to ancient authors, such as Pliny the Elder and Theophrastus.

She was at her most autobiographical in Looking Backwards, part of her final printed work Impressions of Theophrastus Such.

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

" Theophrastus says ( in Diogenes ) "... some parts of his work are half-finished, while other parts make a strange medley.

Diogenes Laërtius ascribes to Theophrastus the theory that Heraclitus did not complete some of his works because of melancholia.

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

Melissa officinalis may be the " honey-leaf " ( μελισσόφυλλον ) mentioned by Theophrastus.

The Greek scientist Theophrastus compiled a book on weather forecasting, called the Book of Signs.

The work of Theophrastus remained a dominant influence in the study of weather and in weather forecasting for nearly 2, 000 years.

The method of comparing hardness by seeing which minerals can scratch others, however, is of great antiquity, having first been mentioned by Theophrastus in his treatise On Stones, c. 300 BC, followed by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, c. 77 AD.

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

Theophrastus, in On the Nature of Plants, does not give as systematic and detailed an account of olive husbandry as he does of the vine, but he makes clear ( in 1. 16. 10 ) that the cultivated olive must be vegetatively propagated ; indeed, the pits give rise to thorny, wild-type olives, spread far and wide by birds.