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Natural History (Penguin Classics) Book

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'.Read More

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    Natural History : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140444131 : 0140444130 : 03 Dec 1991 : A work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a 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.

  • ASDA

    A work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation it offers a 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.

  • Penguin

    'The world is the work of Nature and, at the same time, the embodiment of Nature herself' Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology.

  • Pickabook

    Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus, John Healey

  • 0140444130
  • 9780140444131
  • Pliny the Elder
  • 5 February 2004
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 448
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