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          Pliny the Elder was bold and imaginative....

          Here, in quirky, often breathless style, Pliny lays the foundation of a hugely influential encyclopedia with coverage of the universe, stars.

        1. Here, in quirky, often breathless style, Pliny lays the foundation of a hugely influential encyclopedia with coverage of the universe, stars.
        2. Some scientists believe that this skull, on view at the Museo Storico Nazionale Dell'Arte Sanitaria in Rome, once held the brain of Pliny the Elder.
        3. Pliny the Elder was bold and imaginative.
        4. This is the fifth book in the series featuring cases supposedly from the notebook of Pliny the Younger, the nephew and heir of Gaius Plinius Secundus, better.
        5. Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD by Pliny the Elder.

          6. Pliny the Elder

          Biography

          EUGENE M. MCCARTHY, PHD

          Gaius Plinius Secundus (23–79 AD), known to posterity as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient Roman naturalist, historian, and military officer, who also served during his career in a variety of important governmental posts.

          His only surviving work, his encyclopedic Naturalis Historia ("Natural History") covers nearly the entire field of ancient knowledge about the natural world.

          Pliny spent much of his spare time personally investigating the information on geography and natural phenomena recorded in his encyclopedia, and he governed or visited many provinces of the western half of the Roman Empire, experiences that allowed him to collect great quantities of first-hand material.

          He also regularly had books dealing with nature, geography, and mineralogy, written by the best available authorities, read to him aloud. While he was lying in the sun, bathing, or dining, he would listen and have his secretaries note down information for