Natural History (Pliny) (redirect from Naturalis Historia)
The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the...
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Naturalis historia may refer to: Natural History (Pliny) (Naturalis historia), by Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, by Willem Piso Historia...
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Historia Naturalis may refer to: Natural History (Pliny), a natural history encyclopedia by Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, a book on Brazilian...
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Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (English: Brazilian Natural History), originally written in Latin, is the first scientific work on the natural history of...
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as a pinch. The phrase is thought to come from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, regarding the discovery of a recipe written by the Pontic king Mithridates...
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boroughs took part in the festival (the listed names too differ in Pliny Naturalis historia III 69 and Dionysius of Halicarnassus AR V 61). The Latiar became...
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the Elder included the story of Chresimus in his giant encyclopedia Naturalis Historia. The entire anecdote is taken from Piso, as Pliny appreciated his...
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antiquity: Pliny the Elder included the Pillars of Hercules in his Naturalis historia (Book III:3). According to Greek mythology adopted by the Etruscans...
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treatise On Stones, c. 300 BC, followed by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, c. AD 77. The Mohs scale is useful for identification of minerals...
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and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), a comprehensive thirty-seven-volume work covering...
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