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 ...

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 the Elder’s skull — or more accurately, ... “He was, after all, author of a 37-volume book of natural history. ...

The Elder Pliny’s “Natural History” is one of the greatest books of ancient times, a massive compendium of scientific knowledge, traveler’s tales, zoological observation and “Believe It ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny the Elder's Natural History, a comprehensive and influential encyclopedia of the natural sciences written in the first century AD. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

Pliny the Elder’s death was important to Tacitus because he was a famous author – his magisterial Natural History is still read today for its insights into the ancient world. Pliny the Elder ...

-- Pliny, Natural History, 7.13 [trans. J. Bostock] While the ancient Romans knew quite a lot about the human body, their understanding of disease and of internal anatomy were limited.

In his own day, Pliny the Elder was believed to be the most learned man of the era and is best known to us for his thirty-seven volume Natural History; an enormously influential exhaustive ...

Pliny the Elder, born around A.D. 24, was a polymath, the sort of person who rarely slept and could never sit still. He was a naturalist and a philosopher, a soldier and an admiral, and a tireless ...