section_path: Transmission/His successor, Theophrastus
section_name: His successor, Theophrastus
paragraph_text: His successor, Theophrastus
  
  Aristotle's pupil and successor, Theophrastus, wrote the History of Plants, a pioneering work in botany. Some of his technical terms remain in use, such as carpel from carpos, fruit, and pericarp, from pericarpion, seed chamber. Theophrastus was much less concerned with formal causes than Aristotle was, instead pragmatically describing how plants functioned.