Theophrastus

Aristotle’s successor at the Lyceum, whose plant treatises earned him the title father of botany.

Core Principles & Analysis

• His Enquiry into Plants classified some five hundred species by form and habitat.
• He distinguished plant reproduction well enough to describe date-palm pollination.
• His works remained botany’s foundation for over eighteen centuries.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 371 – 287 BC