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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...
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derived from the Gr**** name ἰβίσκος (ibískos)
which Gr****
botanist Pedanius Dioscorides gave to a
plant now
scientifically labelled as
Althaea officinalis...
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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...
- the
middle of the
first century by Gr****
physician and
pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides. De
materia medica was
widely read for more than 1,500 years...
- 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...
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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...
- 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)...
- "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...
