The Pliny, the Elder 24?-79 creator Bostock, John 1773-1846 Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 1816-1878 text utu 2019 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)" by the Elder Pliny is an encyclopedic work published in AD 77. This monumental Latin text compiles knowledge from ancient sources across an extraordinary range of subjects—from astronomy and geography to zoology, botany, mineralogy, and art. The largest surviving work from the Roman Empire, it presents nature as a unified whole designed to serve humanity. Pliny's ambitious project captures the wonder and variety of the natural world, reflecting Rome's imperial expansion and featuring exotic curiosities, medicinal plants, and even legendary monstrous races from the edges of the known world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_(Pliny) Release date is 2019-03-26 Produced by Turgut Dincer, 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) Original publication data not identified Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works QH Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59131 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59131 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134349.0 59131