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Pliny's encyclopedia : = the reception of the Natural history /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pliny's encyclopedia :/ Aude Doody.
Reminder of title:	the reception of the Natural history /
Author:	Doody, Aude,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Science, Ancient. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676222
ISBN:	9780511676222 (ebook)

Pliny's encyclopedia : = the reception of the Natural history /
Doody, Aude,1977-

Pliny's encyclopedia :the reception of the Natural history /Aude Doody. - 1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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 applicability to the work, paying far more attention than ever before to the varying ways in which it has been read during the last two thousand years, especially by Francis Bacon and Denis Diderot. This book makes a major contribution not just to the study of the Elder Pliny but to our understanding of the cultural processes of ordering knowledge widespread in the Roman Empire and to the reception of classical literature and ideas.

ISBN: 9780511676222 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

799803
Pliny,
the Elder.Naturalis historia.Subjects--Topical Terms:

799804
Science, Ancient.

LC Class. No.: Q143.P64 / D66 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 500

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