{"product_id":"9780674994317","title":"Natural History, Volume VI: Books 20-23 by W.H.S. Jones","description":"An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.   Pliny  the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian  rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter  writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly  administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became  prefect of the fleet at Misenum. He died in the eruption of Vesuvius  when he went to get a closer view and to rescue friends. Tireless  worker, reader, and writer, he was author of works now lost; but his  great Natural History in thirty-seven books with its vast  collection of facts (and alleged facts) survives-a mine of information  despite its uncritical character.   The  contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the  others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of  the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7:  anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany,  agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant products as used in  medicine; 28-32: medical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the  fine arts, and gemstones.    The Loeb Classical Library edition of Natural History is in ten volumes.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294370247029,"sku":"9780674994317","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674994317.jpg?v=1762763247","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674994317","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}