Assertion: elder's work | /r/HasProperty | authority
Facets:
value: on scientific matters
type: OTHER
value: up to the middle ages
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Pliny the Elder wrote the Natural History , an encyclopaedic work of uneven accuracy that was an authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages .
text: Pliny the Elder , Latin in full Gaius Plinius Secundus , (born 23 ce, Novum Comum , Transpadane Gaul [now in Italy]—died August 24, 79, Stabiae , near Mount Vesuvius), Roman savant and author of the celebrated Natural History , an encyclopaedic work of uneven accuracy that was an authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages .