Dioscorides Pedanus

B. C.), Vitruvius, a Roman architect of the first century B. C., Dioscorides Pedanus, a Greek physician of the first century A. D., and the Elder Pliny, also of the first century A. D. Some brief allusions are contained also in the writings of Plato (died 347 B. C.), Aristotle (384-322 B. C.), Diodorus Siculus (about the first century B. C.), and Strabo, the geographer, though Dioscorides and Pliny have incorporated in their later writings the important facts of these writers. 

In the first century of our era, two works important for their records of early chemical knowledge were written. These are the treatise in five books on Materia Medica by Dioscorides Pedanus, a Greek physician, a work considered... 

Dioscorides Pedanus was born at Anazarba in Cilicia in Asia Minor. He apparently served as military physician in the Roman campaigns in Asia Minor, and his work, Materia Mediea, was held in high repute, its influence extending in Asia Minor even to comparatively recent times.42... 

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