Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

by John F. Healy

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198146876
• ISBN13: 9780198146872
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"