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PLINY the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus
(a.d. 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partlv military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, became prefect of the fleet at Misenum, and died in the eruption of Vesuvius when he went to £Tet a closer \iew and to rescue friends.
Tireless worker, reader, and writer, he was author of works now lost, but his oreat Natural is Historia in 37 books with its vast collection of facts (and alleged facts) sursi\es-a mine of information despite its uncritical character. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: qeoaraphv and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8—ll: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture and horticulture;
20-27: plant products as used in medicine;
28-32 medical zoology; 33-37: minerals
(and medicine), the fine arts and gemstones.
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