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Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology Author: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... more » his unique contribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome.« less