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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6) — the Elder Pliny

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 903 pages

This second volume is part of Pliny the Elder's encyclopedic survey of the natural world, in the nineteenth-century translation by John Bostock and H. T. Riley. The larger work ranges from geography and astronomy to plants, animals and minerals. It is valuable for listeners interested in Roman science and the history of ideas.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY.
  2. CONTENTS. OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
  3. BOOK VI. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST,
  4. BOOK VII.835 MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS.
  5. BOOK VIII. THE NATURE OF THE TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS.
  6. BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.
  7. BOOK X. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS.
  8. FOOTNOTES:
  9. ERRATA IN VOL. I.
  10. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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