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    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 Brasiliae (English: Brazilian Natural History), originally written in Latin, is the first scientific work on the natural history of...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    enough for poison to be poured out of one mouth. — Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, VIII, 85 The Amphisbaena however is a snake with two heads, one at...
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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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    "Naturalis Historia; Book 12". Perseus. Retrieved 29 October 2020. "Naturalis Historia; Book 14". Perseus. Retrieved 29 October 2020. "Naturalis Historia;...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    the snakes away. Pliny the Elder also mentioned frankincense in his Naturalis Historia. Frankincense, which was used in the Roman Empire prior to the spread...
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    which flows past the country of the Getae. Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia (Natural History), c. 77–79 AD: "... though various races have occupied...
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    Elder, Naturalis Historia XXXIII.24. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia V.20. Cassius Dio, Historia Romana XXXVI.48.1 Cassius Dio, Historia Romana XXXVI...
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    wrote about the grass crown at some length in his Natural History (Naturalis Historia): ...but as for the crown of grass, it was never conferred except...
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