Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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 politics of the encyclopedia
- 3 Finding facts: the summarium in the early printed editions
- 4 Specialist readings: art and medicine from the Natural History
- Conclusion: changing approaches to Pliny's Natural History
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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 politics of the encyclopedia
- 3 Finding facts: the summarium in the early printed editions
- 4 Specialist readings: art and medicine from the Natural History
- Conclusion: changing approaches to Pliny's Natural History
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Pliny's EncyclopediaThe Reception of the Natural History, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010