Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
The Elder Pliny's Natural History provides a wide-ranging account of human achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. This book re-examines Pliny's work for the first time since the 1920s. Modern experiments, simulating the techniques described by Pliny, and an in-depth study of his development of a technical language, confirm his unique contribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome.
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Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
The Elder Pliny's Natural History provides a wide-ranging account of human achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. This book re-examines Pliny's work for the first time since the 1920s. Modern experiments, simulating the techniques described by Pliny, and an in-depth study of his development of a technical language, confirm his unique contribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome.
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Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

by John F. Healy
Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

by John F. Healy

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The Elder Pliny's Natural History provides a wide-ranging account of human achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. This book re-examines Pliny's work for the first time since the 1920s. Modern experiments, simulating the techniques described by Pliny, and an in-depth study of his development of a technical language, confirm his unique contribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198146872
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/20/2000
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 484
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.30(d)
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