PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79)
23 – 79
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1469 CE
#89
Historia naturalis, libri XXXVII.
The most ancient Western encyclopedia extant, Pliny’s Historia contained essentially all that was known in his time concerning geography, mineralogy, anthropology, botany, zoology and meteorology. Books XX-XXXII…
1509 CE
#8445
Medicinae Pliniae libri quinque finiunt foeliciter.
The Medicina Plinii was an anonymous compilation of remedies dating to the early 4th century CE ."The excerptor, saying that he speaks from experience, offers the work as a compact resource for travelers in dealing wi…