Pliny the Elder
Biographical note
Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently.
Works
- The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland [1601]
- The natural history of Pliny / translated by John Bostock and Henry T. Riley [1855–57] v.1 ; v.2 ; v.3 ; v.4 ; v.5 ; v.6
- Natural History in ten volumes with an English translation by H. Rackham [1938] v.1 ; v.2 ; v.3 ; v.4 ; v.5 ; v.6 ; v.7 ; v.8 ; v.9 ;
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