Pliny's encyclopedia : the reception of the natural history / Aude Doody.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2010.
Descrizione fisica:
VIII, 194 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgement. Note on the text. Introduction: how to read an encyclopedia. 1. Science and encyclopedism: the originality of the Natural history 2. Diderot's Pliny and the plitics of the encyclopedia 3. Finding facts: the summarium in early printed editions 4. Specialist readings: art and medicine from the Natural history. Conclusion: changing approaches to Pliny's Natural history. Bibliography. Index
