Natural History: A Selection (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Natural History 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.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 03 December 1991
- Format: Paperback 448 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Natural History
- ISBN 13: 9780140444131 ISBN 10: 0140444130
- Sales rank: 98,677
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Full description for Natural History
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'.
