Fécondité des mines et sexualité des pierres dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine

Halleux, Robert

doi:10.3406/rbph.1970.2807

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“…(See above on 199). Paradoxographus Palatinus 12 describes finding a pregnant stone and keeping it to observe its giving birth; Halleux ( 1970) 24 n.3. The reference to the growth and giving birth of refer not to fossils in our sense but simply to bones and ivory dug up from the ground, while ( 4), the 'stones like bones' may be fossils in the proper sense.…”

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Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics (Texts 137-223)

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Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics (Texts 137-223)

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“… Faraone 2018; alsoKotansky 1991. 6 On the Lithika literature, seeHopfner 1926;Halleux 1970-71; Nagy 2012, 85-87. Extracts from the text ascribed to Socrates and Dionysius, Orphei lithika kai kerygmata, are translated inFaraone 2018, 274- 75.…”

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Theophrastus onLyngurium: Medieval and Early Modern Lore from the Classical Lapidary Tradition

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The ancient philosopher Theophrastus (c.371-285 BC) described a gemstone called lyngurium, purported to be solidified lynx urine, in his work De lapidibus ('On Stones'). Knowledge of the stone passed from him to other classical authors and into the medieval lapidary tradition, but there it was almost always linked to the 'learned master Theophrastus'. Although no physical example of the stone appears to have been seen or touched in ancient, medieval, or early modern times, its physical and medicinal properties were continually reiterated and elaborated as if it did 'exist'. By the seventeenth century, it began to disappear from lapidaries, but with no attempt to explain previous authors' errors since it had never 'existed' anyway. In tracing the career of lyngurium, this study sheds some light on the transmission of knowledge from the classical world to the Renaissance and the changing criteria by which such knowledge was judged.

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Fécondité des mines et sexualité des pierres dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine

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Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics (Texts 137-223)

Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics (Texts 137-223)

Two Unpublished Magical Amulets in Ankara

Theophrastus onLyngurium: Medieval and Early Modern Lore from the Classical Lapidary Tradition

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