Die Gliederung des Werkes BUCH 1: Widmung, Inhaltsangabe, Quellennachweis BUCH 2: Astronomie, Kosmogonie BUCH 3-6: Geographie und Ethnologie BUCH 7: Anthropologie und Physiologie BUCH 8-11: Zoologie BUCH 12-19: Botanik BUCH 20-32: Pharmakologie BUCH 33-37: Mineralogie, Metallurgie, Lithurgie Vollst�[...]
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 [...]