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Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology (Hardcover)
[Buy it!] | John F. Healy | USD 382.24
(Thu May 23 22:26:29 2024) | AbebooksAU | AussieBookSeller | ISBN10: 0198146876, ISBN13: 9780198146872, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. The Elder Pliny's Natural History is essentially a work of reference providing a wide-ranging account of human mores and achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. It influenced the content and character of subsequent technical literature, but errors in transmission of the manuscripts led to undeserved criticism from the time of Niccolo Leoniceno, the late fifteenth-century Italian humanist. Pliny's work is herere-examined 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 uniquecontribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome. Pliny does not, in general, understand the principles underlying the phenomena he observes but makes a significant input - especially in the fields of crystallography, chemistry, and physics as well as of the applied sciences - from which beginnings those scientific disciplines would evolve many centuries later. Ironically, Pliny's scientific curiosity led to his death in AD 79 while observing theeruption of Vesuvius at close quarters. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2000] |
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The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage
[Buy it!] | Lindsey, Robert | USD 4.00
(Thu May 23 22:26:31 2024) | Abebooks | HPB-Ruby | ISBN10: 1585745022, ISBN13: 9781585745029, [publisher: The Lyons Press] Softcover Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002] |
