was “Historia Naturalis” (Natural History), an encyclopedia of natural science that spanned thirty-seven books. In this work, Pliny describes in detail the physical nature of the world.
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Pliny in particular devoted one chapter of The Natural History to “The Druids of the Gallic Provinces.” And in the very next ...
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How an Ancient Plant Became the World’s First Birth Control and Rome’s Love Potion. Then Went Extinct Because of ItPliny the Elder, the Roman 1st-century AD author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, called this extract “among the most precious gifts presented to us by Nature.” In his Natural History ...
His motivation appears to have been simple: Pliny wanted fame. He hoped that these letters would help shape the history of the empire, but most of all he wanted them to make him famous.
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