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MATHEMATICIAN, PHYSICIST, BIOLOGIST, AGRICULTURALIST
BOLOS (DEMOCRITUS) OF MENDE (fl. 5th century BC)
Life
Bolos was a neo-Pythagorean and a student of Democritus, from the city of Mende on the Nile Delta. His treatises influenced Posidonius and the Arab alchemists, and are cited by Suidas.
Work
"On agriculture"
"On wonders and technical constructions"
"On natural drugs"
"On Sympathies and Antipathies - Classification of animals, plants and minerals by elements"
"On signs from the sun and the moon and the stars and the rainbow"
"History and art": Extant in fragments.
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