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The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what such a characterisation implies. In this book, Dr Doody examines this concept and its applicability to the work, paying far more attention than ever before to the varying ways in which it has been read during the last two thousand years, especially by Francis Bacon and Denis Diderot. This book makes a major contribution not just to the study of the Elder Pliny but to our understanding of the cultural processes of ordering knowledge widespread in the Roman Empire and to the reception of classical literature and ideas.
| ISBN | 0521491037 | | Pages | 202 | | ISBN13 | 9780521491037
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 470 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Published in | Cambridge | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Publication date | 11 Feb 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 500 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| Introduction | | How to read an encyclopedia | | | | 1 | | Science and encyclopedism: the originality of the Natural History | | | | 2 | | Diderot's Pliny and the politics of the encyclopedia | | | | 3 | | Finding facts: the summarium in the early printed editions | | | | 4 | | Specialist readings: art and medicine from the Natural History | | | | | | Conclusion: changing approaches to Pliny's Natural History | | | | | | Bibliography | | | | | | Index | | |
Blackwell review: Important new research into the work of Pliny the Elder, appealing to scientists as well as classicists. Customer reviews:  Be the first to write a customer review
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