Natural History (Pliny) (redirect from Naturalis Historia)
The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the...
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Naturalis historia may refer to: Natural History (Pliny) (Naturalis historia), by Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, by Willem Piso Historia...
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Historia Naturalis may refer to: Natural History (Pliny), a natural history encyclopedia by Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, a book on Brazilian...
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Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (English: Brazilian Natural History), originally written in Latin, is the first scientific work on the natural history of...
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as a pinch. The phrase is thought to come from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, regarding the discovery of a recipe written by the Pontic king Mithridates...
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treatise On Stones, c. 300 BC, followed by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, c. AD 77. The Mohs scale is useful for identification of minerals...
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boroughs took part in the festival (the listed names too differ in Pliny Naturalis historia III 69 and Dionysius of Halicarnassus AR V 61). The Latiar became...
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the Elder included the story of Chresimus in his giant encyclopedia Naturalis Historia. The entire anecdote is taken from Piso, as Pliny appreciated his...
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and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), a comprehensive thirty-seven-volume work covering...
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antiquity: Pliny the Elder included the Pillars of Hercules in his Naturalis historia (Book III:3). According to Greek mythology adopted by the Etruscans...
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University Press. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia. pp. Liber XXV, Section LIX. Pliny the Elder. Natural History. pp...
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Historia naturalis palmarum: opus tripartitum ("Natural History of Palms, a work in three volumes") is a highly illustrated, three-volume botanical book...
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who causes death to those who look into its eyes. According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the basilisk of Cyrene is a small snake, "being...
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"Naturalis Historia; Book 12". Perseus. Retrieved 29 October 2020. "Naturalis Historia; Book 14". Perseus. Retrieved 29 October 2020. "Naturalis Historia;...
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methods of making perfumes are described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia. The world's first recorded chemist is a woman named Tapputi, a perfume...
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earliest encyclopedic work to have survived to modern times is the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD...
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Hours: Jupiter himself goes and comes back by my working". Pliny Naturalis Historia XXXIV 7; Macrobius Saturnalia I 9 10; Lydus De Mensibus I 4. According...
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first known description of the bonnacon comes from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia: There are reports of a wild animal in Paeonia called the bonasus...
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wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. The Naturalis Historia is one of the largest...
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alētheia, is found in Erasmus' Adagia, I.vii.17. Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia contains an early allusion to the phrase. The Greek expression is...
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10.1. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 17.93; Columella, De Arboribus 4.10.1. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 17.63-64, 131. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 21.110-112. Pliny...
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Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56.3 Homer, Iliad 11.831 Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1235 citing Pherecydes; Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia...
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Historia naturalis bulgarica is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published by the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria. The journal is...
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later used as a synonym for Scandinavia, also appears in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History), but is used for a group of Northern European islands...
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Kleopatra Selene, 2003:54 and 154, and by Fox 2008:182. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.2–3 Plutarch, Life of Sertorius 9.4 Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Odes...
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sect. 2) Ovid, Metamorphoses (Book 8, ln. 566) Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.4 Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca (Book 1, Ch. 8, sect. 2) Diodorus...
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included the story about the flexible glass in his encyclopedic work Naturalis Historia (XXXVI.66.195), but added that the story is "more widely spread than...
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1–7. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 3.770–779. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 4.12.83 (chapter 4.26). Pliny, Naturalis Historia 4.13.93 (chapter 4.27): "Researches which...
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Pliny the Elder, in the fourth book of his Natural History (Latin: Naturalis historia) likewise calls Great Britain Albion. He begins his chapter on the...
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town of Chalcedon in Turkey. The name appears in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia as a term for a translucent kind of jaspis. Another reference to a...
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