Natural History, Volume I: Books 12 (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
400
Utgivningsdatum
1938-01-01
Upplaga
Revised ed
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Översättare
H Rackham
Originalspråk
Latin
Illustratör/Fotograf
Index
Illustrationer
Index
Volymtitel
Volume I Books 1-2
Dimensioner
168 x 112 x 22 mm
Vikt
140 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780674993648

Natural History, Volume I: Books 12

Books I-II

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Inbunden,  Engelska, 1938-01-01
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An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge. Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 2379), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became prefect of the fleet at Misenum. He died in the eruption of Vesuvius when he went to get a closer view and to rescue friends. Tireless worker, reader, and writer, he was author of works now lost; but his great Natural History in thirty-seven books with its vast collection of facts (and alleged facts) survivesa mine of information despite its uncritical character. The contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 36: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 811: zoology; 1219: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 2027: plant products as used in medicine; 2832: medical zoology; 3337: minerals (and medicine), the fine arts, and gemstones. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Natural History is in ten volumes.
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Harris Rackham (18681944) was a Fellow of Christs College, Cambridge.