Theophrastus, a peripatetic philosopher, born in Lesbos; pupil, heir, and successor of Aristotle, and the great interpreter and expounder of his philosophy; was widely famous in his day; his writings were numerous, but only a few are extant, on plants, stars, and fire; (d. 286 B.C.)
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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