| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) |
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Science language |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: How to read an encyclopedia -- Science and encyclopedism : the originality of the Natural history -- Diderot's Pliny and the politics of the encyclopedia -- Finding facts : the Summarium in the early printed editions -- Specialist readings : art and medicine from the Natural history -- Conclusion: Changing approaches to Pliny's Natural history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.
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Pliny, the Elder -- Knowledge and learning -- Science.
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Pliny, the Elder. |
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Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder) |
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Science, Ancient.
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Science, Ancient. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Doody, Aude, 1977- Pliny's encyclopedia. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521491037 (DLC) 2009044127 (OCoLC)466770961 |
| ISBN |
9780511677076 (electronic book) |
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0511677073 (electronic book) |
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9780511681561 |
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0511681569 |
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0521491037 (Cloth) |
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9780521491037 (Cloth) |
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