Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

Zusatztext This book is a significant contribution as a textbook and (essential) reference point for anyone interested in the history of science or Pliny's massive and often neglected work: for making Pliny accessible to scientists, and some of the science accessible to some classicists, Healy deserves much credit. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book examines the massively important contribution of Pliny the Elder (AD 23/4 - 79) to the physical and applied sciences in the early years of imperial Rome. It is based on the results of laboratory experiments which validate many of Pliny's observations, and on a new study of the technical language he created.

Product details

• Authors: John F. Healy, John F. (Emeritus Professor of Classics Healy, Healy John F.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1999
• EAN: 9780198146872
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814687-2
• No. of pages: 484
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval