Enquiry into Plants

Hort AT. Theophrastus enquiry into plants. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1968. 

Theophrastus, (ca 300 B.C.) "Enquiry into plants and Minor Odours and Weather Signs". 2 Vols. transl. to English by Hort, A. W. Heinemann London, 1916. 

In his work, irept loroplas (or Enquiry into Plants), Theophrastus catalogues a large number of plants with discussions of their habitat, products, and uses for food, medicine and other purposes. There are comparatively few references to products or processes that are distinctly applications of chemistry, but there are a few of interest. 

Edition used is Theophrastus of Eresus, Enquiry into Plants, and minor works on odours and weather signs, Greek and English text, Sir Arthur Hort, London and New York, 1916. 

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, llort s Translation, II. pp. 229-233. 

Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and other Greeks probably copied some of their plant lore from the Egyptians. About 370 B.C., Theophrastus, a pupil of Plato, wrote An Enquiry Into Plants, which contain a section on the medicinal properties of plants. 

Theophrastus. 1949. Historia Plantarum Enquiry into Plants) 8.9.1. Translated hy A. Hort. London W. Heinemann, vol. II, p. 199. But it must have been difficult to plow under entire plants with ards, primitive plows that did not overturn the soil see Isager, S., and J. E. Skydsgaard. 1992. Ancient Greek Agriculture. London Routledge, p. 110. 

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