The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. A n d r e a e ec deinde multo plurium fama est, quorundam. Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue. Naturalis historiae first page of supplement bound with v. Pliny the elder, naturalis historia, book preface, chapter 1. Pliny the elder pliny, the elder the online books page. Plinys natural history was the goto encyclopedia for over 1,500 years, from its publication around the year 77 until well into the renaissance. This extraordinary work was originally composed and written in classical latin around ad 70, and was divided into thirtyseven books. The only article about his works was published by gustav heigl in 1885 and 1886 in the newsletter of the maribor classical gymnasium and, in 1912, a short excerpt on apelles naturalis historia 35.
Its frequent digressions into issues of morality and gossipy, occasionally rambling style would certainly not be at home in a modern encyclopedia, but its allencompassing scope covering botany, zoology, astronomy, geology, and medicine among other. Naturalis historia est solum gaii plinii secundi scriptoris romani opus hodie servatum. Plinys historia naturalis natural history is a vast encyclopaedic work and the only book by him to have survived. He wrote the encyclopedic naturalis historia natural history, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. Plinys natural history is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Home collectionstexts perseus catalog research grants open source about help. Pliny the elder, roman savant and author of the celebrated natural history, an encyclopedic work of uneven accuracy that was an authority on scientific matters up to the middle ages. It is very broad in scope and includes all sorts of facts, observations and myths. Plinys famous description of druids culling the mistletoe from oaks fundamentally influenced the modern. Naturalis historia bahasa latin untuk sejarah alam adalah ensiklopedia yang diterbitkan sekitar tahun 7779 masehi yang ditulis oleh plinius.
Maximum est elephans proximumque humanis sensibus, quippe intellectus illis sermonis patrii et imperiorum obedientia, officiorum quae didicere memoria, amoris et gloriae voluptas, immo vero, quae etiam in homine rara, probitas, prudentia, aequitas, religio quoque siderum solisque ac lunae veneratio. This paper offers a detailed discussion of pliny naturalis historia 16, 249251, maybe the best known passage on druids in ancient literature. Kitab ini adalah salah satu dari karya tunggal terbesar dari masa kekaisaran romawi yang masih dibaca hingga sekarang dan berusaha membahas semua bidang pengetahuan masa lalu yang dikenal oleh sang penulis. Pliny the elder, natural history loeb classical library. Pliny the elder gaius plinius secundus philemon holland trans.
The work, which was largely complete by 77 ce, is divided into 37 books and covers such. Naturalis historia naturalis historia, 1669 edition, title page. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Iani obitum recognovit et scripturae discrepantia adiecta edidit carolus mayhoff, vol. Erden, erze, steine im vergleich bei plinius, naturalis historia 36, 37.
Of all the works written by pliny, one only, tlic itistoria. Splash latino plinio il vecchio naturalis historia. Author pliny the elder country ancient rome subject natural history, ethnography, art, sculpture, mining, mineralogy genre encyclopaedia, popular science the natural history is a work by pliny the elder. Volume i of the natural history of gaius plinius secundus. Plinius secundus historia naturalis, nellanno della nativita del nostro signore iesu christo mcccclxxxix adi xii di septembre 2032292. Naturkunde naturalis historia libri xxxvii buch ii. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position. 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 of diving for sponges, the first waterclock, or the use of asses milk to remove wrinkles.
Gaius plinius secundus ad 232479, called pliny the elder. Gaius plinius secundus, aka pliney the elder 23 79 ce born in the northern lake region of italy at the base of the alps, pliny spent his life as a military man and in the practice of law in the service of the roman emperors. The latin library the classics page the classics page. This image might not be in the public domain outside of the united states.