Pliny the Elder
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Pliny the Elder was a Roman military officer and author who lived in the 1st century and wrote extensively about the natural world and history. His works, particularly his encyclopedic *Natural History*, became one of the most influential scientific texts of the ancient world and shaped how Europeans understood nature for centuries afterward.
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Plinius Secundus (23 AD – August 25, 79), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
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Naturae historiarum libri XXXVII e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari, quam emendatissime editi. Additus est index Joannis Camertis
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C. Plinii Secvndi Historia Mvndi, Denvo Emendata, Non Pavcis Locis Ex Diligenti Ad Pervetvsta Et optimæ fidei exemplaria collatione, nunc primũ animaduersis castigatisq[ue], quemadmodum cuidenter in Sigismundi Gelenij Annotationibus operi adnexis apparet. Adiunctus est Index copiosissimus (Joan. Camertis.)
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Gaius Plinius Secundus (Como, 23 or 24 – Stabiae, 25 August 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/ PLIN-ee), was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of the emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), a thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural world, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field.
Pliny produced seven works spanning 102 volumes, of which only Natural History survives. Among the lost works was the twenty-volume Bella Germaniae (Wars of Germania), used as a source by other prominent Roman historians including Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius. Tacitus may have used Bella Germaniae as the primary source for his work, De origine et situ Germanorum (On the Origin and Situation of the Germani). Also substantial was the thirty-one-volume history A fine Aufidii Bassi, which extended Aufidius Bassus' earlier historical work to Pliny's day.
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