Natural History: A Selection (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Pliny The Elder

 
9780140444131: Natural History: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140444130 ISBN 13: 9780140444131
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1991

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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'.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140444130
ISBN 13 
9780140444131
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
448
Herausgeber
Healey John
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