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Pliny’s Encyclopedia The Reception of the Natural History 1st Edition by Aude Doody ISBN 0521491037 9780521491037

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Author(s): Aude Doody
ISBN(s): 9780521491037, 0521491037
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.31 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521491037

ISBN 13: 9780521491037 

Author: Aude Doody 

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.

Table of contents:

  1. Science and encyclopedism: the originality of the Natural History

  2. Diderot’s Pliny and the politics of the encyclopedia

  3. Finding facts: the Summarium in the early printed editions

  4. Specialist readings: art and medicine from the Natural History

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