01899cam a22003373u 4500 60230 UtSlPG 20260610134404.0 m cr n 260607r2019||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 QH Pliny, the Elder, 24?-79 The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6) Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2019 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_(Pliny) Release date is 2019-09-03 Produced by Turgut Dincer, Tony Browne, Stephen Rowland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)" by Pliny the Elder is an encyclopedic work published in AD 77. This monumental compilation spans 37 books across diverse subjects—from astronomy and geography to zoology, mining, and art. Written by a Roman administrator who worked by night, it presents nature as a divine force serving humanity. Pliny's sprawling catalog includes exotic creatures, medicinal plants, precious stones, and even rumors of monstrous races at the world's edges, creating an ambitious portrait of the natural world and human life within it. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works Bostock, John, 1773-1846 Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1816-1878 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60230 101056 101056