Teofrasto : causas das plantas / Maria de Fátima Silva, Jorge Paiva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jorge Paiva

Contributor:

Fátima Silva, Maria de, editor.

Paiva, Jorge, editor.

Series:

Classica Digitalia: Diaita: Scripta & Realia - Estudos Monográficos

Language:

Portuguese

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Coimbra University Press 2020

Portugal : Coimbra University Press, 2020

Language Note:

Portuguese

System Details:

text file

Summary:

After the study entitled History of the Plants, Theophrastus continued his research on botany and published a second set of results, now entitled Causes of the Plants.Assuming the inevitable dialogue between the two titles, Theophrastus progressed, however, from an inventory to a more technical reflection, looking at agriculture as an 'art' with the capacity to manipulate nature and serve commercial, gastronomic and medicinal objectives.This volume offers the first translation into Portuguese of the Causes of plants, by Theophrastus. The nature of the subject needed the collaboration of a Hellenist and a botanist, in order to ensure the accuracy of the translation and the specificity of the footnotes and indexes. Beside the large number of footnotes, there is an introduction that identifies Theophrastus, his intellectual circle and the scientific structure of his exposition. The volume also includes a bibliography and eight indexes: four of Greek nomenclature and its translation into Portuguese, referring to the chapters of Theophrastus' text; the others of Latin names given to the species (plants and animals), referring to the footnotes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

989-26-1976-5