Pliny's encyclopedia the reception of the "Natural history"
The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what such a characterisation implies. In this book, Dr Doody examines this concept and its applicab...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: How to read an encyclopedia
- Science and encyclopedism : the originality of the Natural history
- Diderot's Pliny and the politics of the encyclopedia
- Finding facts : the Summarium in the early printed editions
- Specialist readings : art and medicine from the Natural history
- Conclusion: Changing approaches to Pliny's Natural history