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Special Sub-Topic: The Peripatetics


In what area did the Peripatetic scholar Theophrastus work?

    Botany.

Which follower of Aristotle made advances in the geometry of the sphere?
    Autolycus.

One follower of Aristotle was the first individual to draw a line of parellel latitude on a map. What was his name?
    Dicaearchus.

Which later follower of Aristotle organized and catalogued Aristotle's work and was the last of the Lyceum's leaders?
    Andronicus.

Another, much later follower of Aristotle was a great commentator of Aristotle's works and provided the foundation for the Arabian and Latin Aristotelian commentaries. What was his name?
    Alexander.


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