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Pliny the Elder
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Definition:naturalist, born at Como, educated at Rome, and served in the army; was for a space procurator in Spain, spent much of his time afterwards studying at Borne; being near the Bay of Naples during an eruption of Vesuvius, he landed to witness the phenomenon, but was suffocated by the fumes; his "Natural History" is a repertory of the studies of the ancients in that department, being a record, more or less faithful, from extensive reading, of the observation of others rather than his own; d. A.D. 79.Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907)---(born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of emperor Vespasian.Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias.He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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How true is the old saying, attributed to Pliny the Elder, that a man who lets himself get above himself is simply asking for it,
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.72 (1971)
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You are a very good lawyer, but you are a poor historian, you know nothing of sociology, and your biology is contemporaneous with Pliny."
Jack London. The Iron Heel
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Pliny relates that they sent slaves from Ostia to Rome, who carried on their heads fish which he calls the mulus, and which, from the description, must probably be the goldfish.
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte-Cristo (1844)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.518, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/518/mode/1up
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.528, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/528/mode/1up
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The other usual way both in Italy and other Countries, to conserve Snow and Ice with Straw or Reed, is set down so punctually by Mr. Boyle in his Experimental History of Cold, pag. 408. 409. that nothing is to be added. It seems Pliny could not pass by these Conservatories,
The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)
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