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Record Nr.

UNISA996199043403316

Titolo

Natural History . Volume X : Books 36-37 : Minerals (and medicine), the fine arts, and gemstones / / edited by David Edward Eichholz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1962

ISBN

0-674-99461-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 pages)

Disciplina

622.2

Soggetti

Minerals - Biotechnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preface - Introduction - Natural History - Book XXXVI - Book XXXVII - Index of Artists - Museographic Index - Index of Architecture and Engineering - Index of Minerals.

Sommario/riassunto

Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the universe; world geography and ethnography; human anthropology and physiology; zoology; botany, agriculture, and horticulture; medicine; minerals, fine arts, and gemstones.