The study of the physical material of the Earth dates back at least to ancient Greece when Theophrastus ( 372-287 BCE ) wrote the work Peri Lithon ( On Stones ).

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

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

Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim ( 1493 – 1541 ) ( also referred to as Paracelsus, from his belief that his studies were above or beyond the work of Celsus-a Roman physician from the first century ) is also considered " the father " of toxicology.

The earlier Megarian dialecticians – Diodorus Cronus and Philo – had done work in this field, and the pupils of Aristotle – Theophrastus and Eudemus – had investigated hypothetical syllogisms, but it was Chrysippus who developed these principles into a coherent system of propositional logic.

* Circuit of the Earth ()-This work was probably the text written in explanation of the geographical maps which Dicaearchus had constructed and given to Theophrastus, and which seem to have comprised the whole world, as far as it was then known.

* Description of Greece ()-This is a fragment of a work dedicated to " Theophrastus ", and consisting of 150 iambic lines.

One of the earliest observations of species in Araceae was conducted by Theophrastus in his work Enquiry into Plants.

Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ) classified animal species in his work The History of Animals, and his pupil Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c.

The materials are said to be taken almost wholly from Aristotle's Meteorologica, from the work of Theophrastus, On Weather Signs, and from Hesiod.

The work of Theophrastus On Affirmation and Denial seems to have corresponded to that of Aristotle's On Judgment.

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.

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 wrote a separate work On Mining, which like most of his writings is a lost work.

Although Pliny's treatment of the subject is more extensive, Theophrastus is more systematic and his work is comparatively free from fable and magic.

* Theophrastus work " On Stones " full text + annotation

* Theophrastus work " The Characters " English translation

That this work cannot have been written by Aristippus of Cyrene has long been realised, not least because the author mentions Theophrastus who lived a generation after Aristippus.

The work of rhizomatist ( the rhizomati were the doctors of the day, berated by Theophrastus for their superstition ) Krateuas ( fl.

Will Godwin, a young boy, is forced to work for the evil apothecary Dr. Elias Theophrastus Spittle after Spittle frames him for a murder.

A work On Plants is repeatedly quoted by Athenaeus, and frequently in connection with the work of Theophrastus on the same subject, to which, therefore, it may have been a supplement.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

However, his subject matter and basic themes have remained surprisingly consistent, and these, together with certain key poetic images, may be traced through all his work, including the new jazz experiments.

The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Knossos.

They divorced five years later, but remained friends and collaborated in later work.

Hill Top remained a working farm but was now remodelled to allow for the tenant family and Potter ’ s private studio and work shop.

He remained convinced that sound would not work in his films, but was also " obsessed by a depressing fear of being old-fashioned.

Many Egyptian Christians went to the desert during the 3rd century, and remained there to pray and work and dedicate their lives to seclusion and worship of God.

His work, however, remained unnoticed.

The work of Lee and Jones remained on the walls of the museum.

Thomas continued to work as a freelance journalist for several years and during this time remained at Cwmdonkin Drive where he continued to add to his notebooks, amassing 200 poems in four books between 1930 and 1934.

In this unstable political climate David's work remained unfinished.

Although Scheler later criticised Husserl's idealistic logical approach and proposed instead a " phenomenology of love ", he states that he remained " deeply indebted " to Husserl throughout his work.

At 15, he was reading the original papers of Joseph Louis Lagrange, such as the landmark Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations which likely motivated his later work on equation theory, and Leçons sur le calcul des fonctions, work intended for professional mathematicians, yet his classwork remained uninspired, and his teachers accused him of affecting ambition and originality in a negative way.

Besides attending the classes, Enrico Fermi found the time to work on his extracurricular activities, particularly with the help of his friend Enrico Persico, who remained in Rome to attend the university.

Indeed, according to various historical accounts, after that point few mathematicians tackled the issues and the work of those who did remained obscured largely because of resistance to such unfamiliar emerging concepts, which were sometimes referred to as mathematical " monsters ".

Anna Douglass remained a loyal supporter of her husband's public work, even though Douglass ' relationships with Julia Griffiths and Ottilie Assing, two women he was professionally involved with, caused recurring speculation and scandals.

" The work remained unsurpassed until the thirteenth century and was regarded as the summit of all knowledge.

'" Orwell wrote later that he felt guilty about his role in the work of empire and he " began to look more closely at his own country and saw that England also had its oppressed ..." Orwell made changes to his appearance in Burma that remained for the rest of his life.

His anatomical reports, based mainly on dissection of monkeys and pigs, remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published in the seminal work De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius where Galen's physiological theory was accommodated to these new observations.

His most famous work, the De re metallica libri xii long remained a standard work, and marks its author as one of the most accomplished chemists of his time.

Working closely with his librettists and well aware that dramatic expression was his forte, he made certain that the initial work upon which the libretto was based was stripped of all " unnecessary " detail and " superfluous " participants, and only characters brimming with passion and scenes rich in drama remained.

Apparently his work remained largely unknown to engineers in the UK and US until much later, although at least IBM was aware of it as it financed his post-war startup company in 1946 in return for an option on Zuse's patents.