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Record Nr.

UNISA996199045203316

Titolo

Natural History . Volume IV : Books 12-16, Botany, agriculture, and horticulture / / edited by Harris Rackham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1945

ISBN

0-674-99408-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (576 pages)

Disciplina

581.5

Soggetti

Plant communities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction - Natural History - Book XII - Book XIII - Book XIV - Book XV - Book XVI - Index of Persons.

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.