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- Is Loeb classical library free?
- What is Pliny the Elder famous for?
- Why did Pliny write the natural history?
- Is Pliny Natural History a primary source?
Is Loeb classical library free?
Complete access to the digital Loeb Classical Library is available to individual users via annual subscriptions priced at $175 for the first year and $75 for subsequent consecutive years. Visit the Harvard University Press website to subscribe online.
What is Pliny the Elder famous for?
Why is Pliny the Elder important? Pliny the Elder wrote the Natural History, an encyclopaedic work of uneven accuracy that was an authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages.
Why did Pliny write the natural history?
Pliny's purpose in writing the Natural History was to cover all learning and art so far as they are connected with nature or draw their materials from nature.
Is Pliny Natural History a primary source?
Although Pliny did not distinguish between fact, opinion, and speculation in his 37-volume treatise, he can be credited with the creation of the first scientific encyclopaedia. For centuries the Natural History served as the Western world's primary source of scientific information and theory.
