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Science in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, His Sources and Influence

By Roger French , Frank Greenaway (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
1032761164, 9781032761169
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8333581 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World
Pages
300\0
Orientation
no
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2024-09-10 01:23:11

Description

The studies collected in Science in the Early Roman Empire (1986) represent key research done on the Elder Pliny – an important and difficult figure whose Natural History forms a valuable compendium at a fixed historical point in time of ancient science. Its subsequent influence was enormous, remaining the most comprehensive scientific encyclopaedia even until the Renaissance. The chapters seek to locate Pliny in his social and intellectual milieu, to survey his approach to particular sciences such as astronomy, mineralogy, botany and pharmacopoeia. Two chapters consider the response in the Renaissance to his work.

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