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Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
By:John F. Healy,Emeritus Professor of Classics John F Healy
Published on 1999 by Clarendon Press

The Elder Pliny's Natural History provides a wide-ranging account of human achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. This book re-examines Pliny's work for the first time since the 1920s. Modern experiments, simulating the techniques described by Pliny, and an in-depth study of his development of a technical language, confirm his unique contribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome.

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