Full Idea
Diogenes of Apollonia was more or less the last of those who made a study of natural science.
Gist of Idea
Diogenes of Apollonia was the last natural scientist
Source
report of Diogenes (Apoll) (fragments/reports [c.440 BCE], A05) by Simplicius - On Aristotle's 'Physics' 9.25.1
Book Reference
'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.196
A Reaction
He quotes Theophrastus