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Pliny the Elder’s “Natural History”, a thirty-seven volume encyclopedia, stands as one of the greatest writings of antiquity, covering all branches of knowledge. The book is frequently cited in Sri ...
Pliny began Book 1 of his Natural History with a dedication to the emperor Titus (Vespasian’s son) and an itemization of what was to follow. First came a book on the universe, heavenly bodies and the ...
Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD) research into the natural world formed the basis of scientific authority for centuries to come. He died during the eruption of Mount ...
Pliny the Elder’s skull — or more accurately, ... “He was, after all, author of a 37-volume book of natural history. ...
“ALUMEN” is mentioned frequently in the Historia Naturalis of the elder Pliny, and there has been some controversy about its identity. It is probable that the term was used loosely to describe ...
Pliny in particular devoted one chapter of The Natural History to “The Druids of the Gallic Provinces.” And in the very next chapter, he describes (and dismisses) various forms of magic ...
Killer whales appear in volume nine, "The Natural History of Fishes." Here Pliny dedicates a whole chapter to whales, which at that time were classified as fish.
This villa may have been the villa where Gaius Pliny Secundus (Pliny the Elder), known for writing the encyclopedic Natural History, witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that caused his death ...
pliny the elder, the natural history, book vii. 1 man, his birth, his organization, and the invention of the arts., chap. 7. (9.)—of those who have been cut out of the womb.