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Often regarded as the first philosopher in the Western tradition, he proposed that water is the fundamental substance of all matter. His work in geometry and astronomy was highly respected by early modern natural philosophers.
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Bovelles, Charles de
Vitruvius Pollio
Diogenes Laertius
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)
Dante Alighieri; Landino, Christophoro (commentator)
Athanasius Kircher
Plato (Ficino translation)
Giambattista della Porta
Johannes Reuchlin
Plato; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Francesco Petrarca
Leon Battista Alberti
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Robert Fludd
Plotinus; Marsilio Ficino (trans.)
Francesco Giorgi (Zorzi)
Ralph Cudworth
Michael Maier
Bacon, Francis
Bacon, Francis
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
Plato | Taylor, Thomas (trans.)
Francesco Giorgi (Giorgio Veneto)
Kepler, Johannes
Walter Scott (ed.)
Rene Descartes
Schwenckfeld, Caspar
[Starck, Johann August von]
Haugwitz, Tobias Ludewig ab
[Starck, Johann August von]
[Gleichen, Karl Heinrich von]
Witsius, Hermannus
Erasmus, Desiderius
Pistorius, Johannes
Zimmermann, Johann Jacob
Newton, Isaac
Anonymous|[Lenz, Johann Christoph]
[Binet, Benjamin]
Hero of Alexandria; Johann Ludwig Heiberg (ed.)
Anonymous
Verdier, Antoine du
William Gilbert
William Gilbert
Various; ed. P. Perna
René Descartes
Giambattista della Porta
Pernety, Antoine-Joseph
More, Henry
[Kleuker, Johann Friedrich]
Nonnotte, Claude François
Diogenes Laertius
[Starck, Johann August von]
[Starck, Johann August von]
anonymous
[Gleichen, Karl Heinrich von]
Burnet, Thomas
Newton, Isaac
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Iamblichus; Thomas Taylor (trans.)
David Hume
Theon of Smyrna; Eduard Hiller (ed.)
Bryant, Jacob
Walter Scott (ed.)
Gustav Theodor Fechner
Hero of Alexandria; Johann Ludwig Heiberg (ed.)
William Gilbert
Rudolf Steiner
[Pluquet, François-André-Adrien]
[Maleville, Guillaume]
Schedius, Elias
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
David Hume
Leon Battista Alberti
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Bacon, Roger
Manly P. Hall
Nemesius of Emesa; Nicasius Ellebodius (trans.)
Giambattista della Porta
Christophorus Clavius
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Andrea Cesalpino
Thomas Sprat
Accademia Ercolanese
Heinrich Ritter & Ludwig Preller
G.R.S. Mead
Proclus; Joseph Justus Scaliger
Rudolf Hercher
Remigius of Auxerre; Martianus Capella; Isidore of Seville
Ermolao Barbaro
Ermolao Barbaro
Johann Jakob Brucker
Johann Jakob Brucker
Irenaeus of Lyon / W. Wigan Harvey (ed.)
Dürr, Johann C.
Pliny the Elder; C.F.W. Jan; C. Mayhoff (eds.)
Seneca; Bouillet (ed.)
Pliny the Elder
Pomponius Mela; C. Frick (ed.)
Seneca; Bouillet (ed.)
Aratus; J.T. Buhle (ed.)
Euclid; Andreas Mussard
Euclid; Andreas Mussard
Irenaeus of Lyon
Giambattista della Porta
Euclid; J.L. Heiberg (ed.)
Ausonius
Ausonius
Robert Estienne
Kenelm Digby; Athanasius Kircher
Justus Lipsius
Andrea Cesalpino
Marin Mersenne
Diogenes Laertius
Irenaeus of Lyon
Pliny the Elder
Johannes de Raei
Johannes de Raei
Francis Bacon
Gisbert Cuper
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Pliny the Elder
Iamblichus; Marsilio Ficino (trans.)
Andrea Alciato
Justus Lipsius
Hermes Trismegistus; Apuleius; Marsilio Ficino
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Viridarium Chymicum
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Ferrarius, Frater, ca. 14./15. Jh.; Dastin, Johannes, ca. 14. Jh.
Menasseh ben Israel
Ploucquet, Gottfried, 1716-1790; Fischhaber, Georg Friedrich
Turba Philosophorum
Andreas Cellarius
Andreas Cellarius
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Augustus Meineke)
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Theatrum Sympatheticum
Pseudo-Aristotle; Al-Ghazali; Boethius
Plato, v427-v347
Plato, v427-v347
Nemesius of Emesa; ed. C.F. Matthaei
Rothmann
Bacon, Francis
Bacon, Francis
John Philoponus
Avicenna; Alexander of Aphrodisias
Marsilio Ficino
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Giovanni Pontano
Diogenes Laertius; Ambrogio Traversari (trans.)
Giannozzo Manetti
Giannozzo Manetti
Bacon, Francis
Angelo Poliziano
Justus Lipsius
Hero of Alexandria; Friedrich Hultsch (ed.)
Lazarus Zetzner (ed.)
Lazarus Zetzner (ed.)
Hartmann Schedel / Anton Koberger
Lionel Alexandre Dauriac
Vitruvius; Cato
Leon Battista Alberti
Pierre Gassendi
Aristotle (Oxford trans. ed. Ross & Smith)
Aristotle (Oxford trans. ed. Ross & Smith)
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Wilhelm Canter)
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Wilhelm Canter)
Pierre Gassendi
Vitruvius; Johannes de Laet (ed.)
Vitruvius; Johannes de Laet (ed.)
Aristotle (trans. William Alexander Hammond)
Francesco Patrizi
Francesco Patrizi
Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi
Francis Bacon
Peter Binsfeld
Giambattista della Porta
Giambattista della Porta
Philip Lansberge
Giambattista della Porta
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Anton Maria Schyrleus de Rheita
Lucius Annaeus Seneca / Erasmus (ed.)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca / Erasmus (ed.)
Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Colberg, Ehregott Daniel
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Manilius; Hyginus; Ptolemy
Syrbius, Johann Jakob
Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi
Eschenbach, Andreas Christian
Ulisse Aldrovandi
John Wilkins
Aristotle
Sextus Empiricus
Justin Martyr (ed. Henri II Estienne)
John Philoponus
John Tzetzes
Menasseh, Ben Israel
Censorinus
Gottlob Frege
Menasseh, Ben Israel
Plutarch; trans. Lionel Pearson; F. H. Sandbach
Minucius Felix
Minucius Felix
Aristotle / Theophrastus
Iamblichus
Hippolytus of Rome
Vitruvius
Alexander of Tralles; Galen
Pliny the Elder
Hippolytus of Rome
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Plutarch; trans. F. H. Sandbach
Handel, Ignatius; Reibelt, Johann Joseph Adam
Franz Brentano
Juvenal
Horapollo; Aristotle; Plato
Cesare della Riviera
Plutarch; trans. Frank Cole Babbitt
Anonymous
Pliny the Elder
Marcellin Berthelot & Charles-Émile Ruelle
Marcellin Berthelot & Charles-Émile Ruelle
John Philoponus
Kloss, Georg
Vitruvius
Vitruvius
Bede the Venerable
Aesop & Cornutus
Wilhelm Windelband
George Gemistos Plethon; ed. C. Alexandre
Plutarch; trans. Bernadotte Perrin
Ibn Arabi; R.W.J. Austin (trans.)
Justin Martyr (ed. Robert Estienne)
Wilhelm Windelband
Plutarch; trans. Bernadotte Perrin
Hans von Arnim
Simplicius; ed. Michael Hayduck
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Immanuel Kant
Pliny the Elder
Clement of Alexandria (ed. Otto Stählin)
Giambattista Vico
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christophe de Cattan; Francis Sparry (trans.)
William Gilbert
Michael Maier
Cato; Varro
Olympiodorus
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Leon Battista Alberti
Reuchlin, Johann
Lev Karsavin
[Andreae, Johann Valentin]
Eusebius of Caesarea; J.B. Aucher (ed.)
Marcellin Berthelot
Marcellin Berthelot
Semyon Frank
Pliny the Elder
Vladimir Solovyov
Plutarch; ed. Rudolf Hercher
Cato; Varro; Columella; Palladius; Gesner, Johann Matthias
Lactantius
Ernst Haeckel
Seneca; John Clarke
Seneca; John Clarke
Seneca; John Clarke
Seneca; John Clarke
Strabo (trans. Horace Leonard Jones)
Michael Apostolius
Hippocrates
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
Vitruvius; Sextus Julius Frontinus
Vitruvius; Sextus Julius Frontinus
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Wilhelm Dilthey
Karl Jaspers
Isidore of Seville
Theon of Smyrna
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Diogenes Laertius
Ptolemy; Euclid
Ptolemy; Euclid
Porphyry; Proclus; Ammonius
Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Alexander Herzen
Vitruvius; Frontinus
Tertullian
Scott, Walter
Helena Blavatsky
Lactantius
Lactantius
Robert Grosseteste; Ludwig Baur (ed.)
Ausonius; Valpy, Abraham John
Ausonius; Valpy, Abraham John
Pliny the Elder
Olympiodorus; Aristotle
Barbarossa, Christoph
Agostino Ramelli
Bar Hebraeus
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
John Philoponus
Juncker, Christian
Marliani, Ambrogio
Valerius Maximus
Aristotle
Aristotle
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
John Philoponus
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Aristotle; Immanuel Bekker
Aristotle; Immanuel Bekker
John Philoponus
Strabo (trans. Horace Leonard Jones)
Herodotus (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Hermann Diels (ed.)
Boot, Arnold, 1606-1653; Boot, Gerhard
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Philostratus
Ambrose; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Plutarch; ed. Friedrich Dübner
Philostratus
Nonnus of Panopolis
Bacon, Francis
Vladimir Solovyov
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
Johannes de Sacrobosco
Pliny the Elder
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Eusebius (printed by Robert Estienne)
Euclid; Federico Commandino
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Janus Lascaris (ed.)
Various Greek Poets
Ioannes Tzetzes
Diogenes Laertius
Aristotle
Aristotle
Isidore of Seville; Arevalo, Faustinus
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Ausonius
Aristophanes
Bacon, Francis
Libavius, Andreas
Karl Müller (ed.)
Plato / Marsilio Ficino
Theodore Metochites; ed. C.G. Müller & T. Kiessling
Lactantius; Brandt, Samuel
Lactantius; Brandt, Samuel
Valerius Maximus
Diels, Hermann
Diels, Hermann
George Syncellus
Eberhard David Hauber
Aethicus Ister; Macrobius; Solinus
Dürr, Johann C.
Lorenzo Blanco
Christophorus Clavius
Andrea Cesalpino
Christophorus Clavius
Christophorus Clavius
Heinrich Ritter & Ludwig Preller
Kepler, Johannes
Libavius, Andreas
George Cedrenus
Diogenes Laertius
Nemesius of Emesa; Nicasius Ellebodius (trans.)
Various (Adelard of Bath, Pseudo-Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen)
Girolamo Cardano
Francesco Patrizi
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Benedictus de Spinoza
Sir Thomas Browne
Robert Boyle
David Hume
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Diogenes Laertius / C.D. Yonge
Agostino Ramelli
Arthur Schopenhauer
Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood
Herodotus; Plutarch
Herodotus; Plutarch
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hero of Alexandria; Johann Ludwig Heiberg (ed.)
Aristophanes
Maximus Confessor
Simplicius; Hermann Diels (ed.)
Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria
John Philoponus; ed. Michael Hayduck
Iamblichus; M.T. Kiessling (ed.)
Callimachus
Callimachus
Clement of Alexandria
Agricola, Georg
Kepler, Johannes
Athanasius Kircher
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Gianfrancesco Pico
Bhūdeb Mukharjī (Mookerji)
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
Plato|Plutarchus
[Gleichen, Karl Heinrich von]
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
[Cronenberg, Gerhard von]
Tiedemann, Dieterich
Ulisse Aldrovandi
[Maréchal, Sylvain]
Feylingius, Johannes
Loescher, Val|Ern
Schwenckfeld, Caspar
[Starck, Johann August von]
Steuco, Agostino
Collesson, Jean
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
Boccalini, Trajano
Bovelles, Charles de
Scheffer, Johannes
Penn, William
[Ebers, Karl Friedrich]
Jamblichus
Comenius, Jan Amos
Champier, Symphorien
Waite, Arthur Edward
Bayle, Pierre|Jaquelot, Isaac
[Zwack, Franz Xaver von]
Mornay, Philippe de
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Vitruvius Pollio (trans. Morris Hicky Morgan)
Vitruvius Pollio (trans. Morris Hicky Morgan)
Descartes, René
Lavinheta, Bernardus de
Hellwig, Johann Otto von
Buddeus, Johannes Franciscus
Bessarion, Johannes|Aristotle|Theophrastus
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus
Aristotle
Aristotle
Boccalini, Trajano
Zwinger, Theodor
Loen, Johann Michael von
William Gilbert
Stobaeus, Johannes
Jacques-Paul Migne
Maximus of Tyre
Robert Estienne
Raynaud, Théophile
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Pluche, Antoine
Steuco, Agostino
Steuco, Agostino
Benedetto Varchi
Erastus, Thomas
Angelo Poliziano
Euclid; J.L. Heiberg (ed.)
Arthur Fairbanks (ed.)
Aristotle; Johannes Argyropoulos
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Guarinoni, Hippolytus
Epiphanius
Marcellin Berthelot
Marcellin Berthelot
Athanasius Kircher
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
Michael Maier
Mornay, Philippe de
Descartes, René
Various Greek Poets
[Maréchal, Sylvain]
Kepler, Johannes
Angelo Poliziano
Bacon, Francis
Steuco, Agostino
Steuco, Agostino
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Bessarion, Johannes|Aristotle|Theophrastus
Waite, Arthur Edward
Waite, Arthur Edward
Tiedemann, Dieterich
Bhūdeb Mukharjī (Mookerji)
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Robert Grosseteste; Ludwig Baur (ed.)
Mornay, Philippe de
Rudolf Hercher
Fernel, Jean
Johann Jakob Brucker
Johann Jakob Brucker
Autolycus of Pitane
Various Greek Scholars
Clement of Alexandria
Iamblichus; ed. Samuel Tennulius
Peter Binsfeld
Philostratus
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Lange, Joachim
Christopher Clavius
Giambattista della Porta
John Philoponus
Francesco Patrizi
Marin Mersenne
Anton Maria Schyrleus de Rheita
Pierre Gassendi
Aesop & Cornutus
Angelo Poliziano
Nigidius Figulus
Heinrich Ritter & Ludwig Preller
Michael Apostolius
Michael Apostolius
Eusebius (printed by Henri I Estienne)
Aratus; J.T. Buhle (ed.)
Marcellin Berthelot
Marcellin Berthelot
Marcellin Berthelot & Charles-Émile Ruelle
Pierre Duhem
Elias Schedius
Ermolao Barbaro
Ermolao Barbaro
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Justin Martyr (ed. Robert Estienne)
Herodotus (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Theon of Smyrna
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Sextus Empiricus (tr. Henricus Stephanus)
Anonymous
Aristotle
Reuchlin, Johann
Various
Accademia Ercolanese
Giambattista della Porta
Diogenes Laertius
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Hartmann Schedel / Anton Koberger
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne
Ploucquet, Gottfried, 1716-1790; Fischhaber, Georg Friedrich
Giambattista Della Porta
Giambattista Della Porta
Grynaeus, Johann Jakob
Barbarossa, Christoph
Maier, Michael
Philo of Alexandria; C.E. Richter (ed.)
Brucker, Jacob
Marcellin Berthelot & Charles-Émile Ruelle
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
[Loen, Johann Michael von]
Ptolemy; Euclid
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Maier, Michael
Brucker, Jacob
A.-Ed. Chaignet
Aemilius Baehrens
Erasmus, Desiderius
Avicenna; Alexander of Aphrodisias
[s.n.]
Olympiodorus; Aristotle
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Cyprian
Aristotle; tr. Thomas Taylor
Lenz, Christian Friedrich
Hannemann, Johann Ludwig
Hannemann, Johann Ludwig
Various Pythagoreans; tr. Thomas Taylor
Gottlob Frege
Juvenal & Persius
Iamblichus De Mysteriis
Raphson, Joseph
Iamblichus; ed. Nicolaus Festa
Iamblichus; ed. Ermenegildo Pistelli
Mylius, Johann Daniel
Barbarossa, Christoph
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (ed. & trans.)
Marti, Benedikt dit Aretius
Francis Bacon
Hermann Diels (ed.)
Hermann Diels (ed.)
Bacon, Francis
Bernard P. Grenfell & Arthur S. Hunt
Vitruvius
Nicomachus (trans. Martin Luther D'Ooge)
Vitruvius
Wilhelm Windelband
Sir Thomas Browne
Wilhelm Windelband
Iamblichus; tr. Thomas Taylor
Maximus Confessor
Aristotle; tr. Thomas Taylor
Giambattista Vico
Tommaso Campanella
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Roger Bacon (trans. Robert Belle Burke)
Lucretius
Iamblichus; ed. August Nauck
Aristotle (trans. E.W. Webster)
Thomas Sprat
Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
Proclus; tr. Thomas Taylor
Augustine of Hippo
Hans Christian Ørsted
Alexander Roberts / James Donaldson
Aristotle; tr. Thomas Taylor
Joseph Ennemoser; William Howitt (trans.)
Wilhelm Dilthey
Apuleius
Lactantius
Lactantius
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino
Diogène Laërce
Lactantius
Strabo (trans. Horace Leonard Jones)
Pliny the Elder
Iamblichus; ed. J.G. Kiessling
Vitruvius
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Irenaeus of Lyon / W. Wigan Harvey (ed.)
Irenaeus of Lyon / W. Wigan Harvey (ed.)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Plato; tr. Thomas Taylor & Floyer Sydenham
Thomas Taylor
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Buonanni, Filippo
Philostratus
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Banier, Antoine
Marsilio Ficino
Erasmus (printed by Robert Estienne)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Pliny the Elder
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Proclus; Euclid
Ausonius; Valpy, Abraham John
Ausonius; Valpy, Abraham John
Plato; tr. Thomas Taylor & Floyer Sydenham
Georgius Agricola