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Statue of Theophrastus of Eresos (c. 371 BCE-c. 287 BCE)

Theophrastus of Eresos was a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. Theophrastus described a method of preparing white lead in his brief work, "On Stones or History of Stones" (c. 300 BCE). The statue is in the Palermo Botanical Garden, on the island of Sicily, Italy. (Source: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic [CC BY 2.5] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5. Edited by Dr. Douglas J Lanska.)