Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 February 2000
- ISBN 9780198146872
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages484 pages
- Size 224x144x30 mm
- Weight 750 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 here re-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 unique contribution 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 the eruption of Vesuvius at close quarters.
Healy has been faced with the problem of studying in its entirety a text of unusual length and complexity, by one of the most controversial authors of Roman literature: I therefore regard his effort as both seminal and monumental.
