[PDF.88dg] Natural History: A Selection (Penguin Classics)

Natural History: A Selection (Penguin Classics)

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 | #226372 in Books |  1991-12-03 |  1991-12-03 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 |  7.70 x1.20 x5.10l,.72 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| The Ur-Renaissance Man|By krebsman|The elder Pliny must have been a wonderful person to know. He was curious about everything, was well-educated, well-traveled, and had a lot of practical experience in worldly matters. He was a Renaissance Man way before the Renaissance. In this delightful work, Pliny set out to write down everything he knew about everything. You can read t|Language Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original Language: Greek|About the Author|Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 - 79AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, studied botany and philosophy in Rome before serving in the military.

Pliny’s Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses’ milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny himself died while investigating the volcanic eruption ...

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