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Natural History: A Selection Paperback - 1991
by Pliny the Elder; John F. Healey (Translator); Introduction by John F. Healey
Summary
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 that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79, and the natural curiosity that brought about his death is also very much evident in the Natural History a book that proved highly influential right up until the Renaissance and that his nephew, Pliny the younger, described ‘as full of variety as nature itself’.
John F. Healy has made a fascinating and varied selection from the Natural History for this clear, modern translation. In his introduction, he discusses the book and its sources topic by topic. This edition also includes a full index and notes.
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- Title Natural History: A Selection
- Author Pliny the Elder; John F. Healey (Translator); Introduction by John F. Healey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date 1991-12-03
- ISBN 9780140444131 / 0140444130
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 5.18 x 1.11 in (19.61 x 13.16 x 2.82 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Natural history, Natural history - Pre-Linnean works
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91220670
- Dewey Decimal Code 508
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