Astronomiczne zagadki w Historii naturalnej Pliniusza Starszego

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki ◽

10.4467/0023589xkhnt.20.033.12866 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 147-161

Author(s):

Maria Jóźwicka

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Critical Edition ◽

History Of Astronomy ◽

Pliny The Elder ◽

History Of

Astronomical Riddles in the Natural History by Pliny the Elder Gajusz Pliniusz Sekundus, Historia naturalna. T. I: Kosmologia i geografia, księgi II–VI, tekst, wstęp, tłum. i komentarz I. Mikołajczyk, N. Rataj, E. Twarowska-Antczak, K. Antczak, red. I. Mikołajczyk, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2017, ss. 759. Gajusz Pliniusz Sekundus, Historia naturalna. T. II: Antropologia i zoologia, księgi VII–XI, tekst, wstęp, tłum. i komentarz I. Mikołajczyk, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2019, ss. 674. The article presents selected problems related to the Latin-Polish critical edition of the first two volumes of the Natural History by Pliny the Elder. With regard to several passages from this ancient encyclopedia, which are important for the history of astronomy, the text pinpoints the insufficiency and some inaccuracies in the scientific commentary to the second book on cosmology, both in terms of content and sources. On the selected examples from the second volume, pertaining to anthropology and zoology, the article criticizes – in comparison to previous Polish translations – the text of the new one, which is sometimes significantly inconsistent with the Latin original.

Download Full-text

Nephrology in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder (23–79 A.D.)

American Journal of Nephrology ◽

10.1159/000167975 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 252-260 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Natale Gaspare De Santo ◽

Giovambattista Capasso ◽

Dario Ranieri Giordano ◽

Mario Aulisio ◽

Pietro Anastasio ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Pliny The Elder ◽

History Of

Download Full-text

David Hume: A Dissertation on the Passions. The Natural History of Religion. A Critical Edition. Edited by TOM L. BEAUCHAMP.

The Journal of Theological Studies ◽

10.1093/jts/fln168 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 325-328

Author(s):

D. A. Pailin

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Critical Edition ◽

David Hume ◽

History Of Religion ◽

History Of

Download Full-text

Pliny The Elder and Man's Unnatural History

Greece and Rome ◽

10.1017/s0017383500029582 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 80-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Point Of View ◽

Latin Literature ◽

Pliny The Elder ◽

History Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Negative Judgement

Not everybody shares my enthusiasm for the elder Pliny. We all have a nodding acquaintance with theNatural History, but few wish to pursue the relationship to the level of intimacy. Critics who care for the purity of Latin prose take a particularly dim view of him. Eduard Norden's verdict inDie antike Kunstprosa(i.314) is much cited: ‘His work belongs, from the stylistic point of view, to the very worst which we have’. This negative judgement was firmly endorsed by Frank Goodyear in theCambridge History of Latin Literature:

Download Full-text

Pliny the Elder

Classics ◽

10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0194 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Aude Doody

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

History Of Science ◽

Natural World ◽

Pliny The Younger ◽

Intellectual Inquiry ◽

Pliny The Elder ◽

Political Views ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

History Of

Gaius Plinius Secundus or Pliny the Elder (b. 23/4–d. 79 ce) is famous for two things: his monumental Natural History (Historia naturalis), which describes the world in thirty-seven volumes, and his death in the eruption of Vesuvius, which was carefully described by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, in one of two letters about his uncle that have survived to us (Plin. Ep. 6.16). In the second of these letters, Pliny the Elder is described as a man who read insatiably and the author of a large number of lost works, including histories of the German Wars and of the later Julio-Claudian period, as well as a treatise on how to throw a javelin from a horse (Plin. Ep. 3.5). Born in Novum Comum in the Transpadane regions, Pliny the Elder served in Germany alongside the future emperor Titus, practiced law at Rome under Nero, and went on to a prominent career as an equestrian administrator under the Flavians, holding a series of important procuratorships, including that of Hispania Tarraconensis, and serving as commander of the fleet at Misenum. The Natural History is dedicated to Titus, and Pliny’s closeness to both Vespasian and Titus seems reflected in his political views in the work, most obviously in his animosity toward Nero and his court. The Natural History is a key document in the history of science and scholarship in Europe. In this encyclopedic text, Pliny gathers together and arranges data from his reading and from his experience to present an account of nature that has Roman concerns at its heart. Pliny is not particularly concerned with philosophical schools, though he is usually seen as influenced by Stoicism. Nature is knowable through a succession of itemized facts that he puts at the disposal of his readers, to encourage them to marvel at the wonderful and unexpected inventiveness of the natural world. The burden of his text can be seen as a moral or a political one: Pliny promotes a return to old Roman values and a renewed spirit of intellectual inquiry in the rhetorical passages of the text, and the work as a whole is dependent on, and produced in the service of, Roman imperial interests. The work is organized in thirty-seven volumes. The first contains the preface and—unusually—a list of the contents and sources for each of the ensuing volumes. The following thirty-six deal with the heavens (Book 2); geography (Books 3–6); humans and other living creatures (Books 7–11); plants (Books 12–19); medicines from plants (Books 20–27); medicines from living creatures (Books 28–32); and an account of metals, minerals, and gemstones and the art that has been produced from them (Books 33–37).

Download Full-text

How is the moral stance related to the intentional stance and group thinking?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002413 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Hannes Rakoczy

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Intentional Stance ◽

Cognitive Capacities ◽

Shared Intentionality ◽

History Of ◽

Group Thinking ◽

Moral Stance

Abstract The natural history of our moral stance told here in this commentary reveals the close nexus of morality and basic social-cognitive capacities. Big mysteries about morality thus transform into smaller and more manageable ones. Here, I raise questions regarding the conceptual, ontogenetic, and evolutionary relations of the moral stance to the intentional and group stances and to shared intentionality.

Download Full-text