Pliny's encyclopedia
Subtitle: the reception of the Natural history
By: Aude Doody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780521491037
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction. How to read an encyclopedia; 1. Science and encyclopedism: the originality of the Natural History; 2. Diderot's Pliny and the politics of the encyclopedia; 3. Finding facts: the Summarium in the early printed editions; 4. Specialist readings: art and medicine from the Natural History; Conclusion. Changing approaches to Pliny's Natural History; Bibliography; Index.