Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

by John F. Healy

Overview

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)