Natural philosophy

Placita Philosophorum

Pseudo-Plutarch · tr. John Dowell

Year 150 CE

Tradition Late Antiquity

Era Imperial

Language Greek, with Dowell's English (1874)

“It being our determination to discourse of Natural Philosophy, we judge it necessary, in the first place and chiefly, to divide the body of philosophy into its proper members.”

Five books on what the philosophers held: on principles, the world and the heavens, meteors and the earth, the soul and the senses, dreams and generation.