Nikhil Krishnan

In search of the peripatetic philosopher Theophrastus

Though a persuasive champion of the ancient Greek thinker and ‘father of botany’, Laura Beatty intrudes too much to allow us a close look at him

Engraving of Theophrastus after a bust in the Villa Albani, Rome. From Vies des Savants Illustrés by Louis Figuier, Paris, 1866. [Universal History Archive/Getty Images

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