Pliny's Natural History Author:Lloyd Haberly, ed. An account by a Roman of what Romans knew and did and valued. Compacted from the many volumes of the _Historia Naturalis_ by Lloyd Haberly Fairleigh Dickinson University. — The _Natural History_ is what remains of the big shelf of notebooks in which the elder Pliny wrote down everything he saw or heard or read. It is a one-man encyclopedia of abo... more »ut one thousand entries that tell us more about the everyday Roman world than any and all other books that have survived.« less