The studies collected in Science in the Early Roman Empire (1986) represent key research done on the Elder Pliny – an important and difficult figure whose Natural History forms a valuable compendium at a fixed historical point in time of ancient science. Its subsequent influence was enormous, remaining the most comprehensive scientific encyclopaedia even until the Renaissance. The chapters seek to locate Pliny in his social and intellectual milieu, to survey his approach to particular sciences such as astronomy, mineralogy, botany and pharmacopoeia. Two chapters consider the response in the Renaissance to his work.
The studies collected in Science in the Early Roman Empire (1986) represent key research done on the Elder Pliny – an important and difficult figure whose Natural History forms a valuable compendium at a fixed historical point in time of ancient science.
1. The Elder Pliny and his Times J. Reynolds
2. The Plint Translation
Group of Germany R.C.A. Rottländer
3. The Structure of Pliny the Elders
Natural History A. Locher
4. The Perils of Patriotism: Pliny and Roman
Medicine V. Nutton
5. Pharmacy in Plinys Natural History: Some Observations
on Substances and Sources J. Scarborough
6. Pliny on Plants: His Place in the
History of Botany A.G. Morton
7. Aspects of Plinys Zoology L. Bodson
8.
Pliny on Mineralogy and Metals J.F. Healy
9. Chemical Tests in Pliny F.
Greenaway
10. Some Astronomical Topics in Pliny G. Pedersen
11. Plinian
Astronomy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance B.S. Eastwood
12. Pliny and
Renaissance Medicine R.K. French
Roger French and Frank Greenaway
