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Record Nr.

UNISA996199044503316

Titolo

Natural History . Volume V : Books 17-19, Botany, agriculture, and horticulture / / edited by Harris Rackham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1950

ISBN

0-674-99409-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 pages)

Disciplina

631.4

Soggetti

Soil conservation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction - Natural History - Book XVII - Book XVIII - Book XIX - Index.

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.