Historia Naturalis

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:dictionary
gptkbp:author Pliny the Elder
gptkbp:citation gptkb:Charles_Darwin
gptkb:Dante_Alighieri
gptkb:Geoffrey_Chaucer
gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkb:Leonardo_da_Vinci
gptkb:Isidore_of_Seville
gptkb:Bede
gptkb:Albertus_Magnus
gptkb:Thomas_Browne
gptkbp:contains over 20,000 facts
descriptions of animals
descriptions of plants
descriptions of minerals
descriptions of Roman art
descriptions of Roman customs
descriptions of Roman history
descriptions of Roman technology
descriptions of agriculture
descriptions of anthropology
descriptions of art techniques
descriptions of astronomy
descriptions of ethnography
descriptions of geography
descriptions of magic and superstition
descriptions of medicine
descriptions of metallurgy
descriptions of pharmacology
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Roman_Empire
gptkbp:dedicatedTo Titus
gptkbp:firstPublished 1469
gptkbp:genre natural history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Historia Naturalis
gptkbp:influenced medieval encyclopedias
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Aristotle
gptkbp:language gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:notableFor comprehensive coverage of ancient knowledge
one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 37
gptkbp:preservedIn numerous medieval manuscripts
gptkbp:publicationDate 77 AD
gptkbp:structure divided into 37 books
gptkbp:subject gptkb:art
gptkb:astronomy
gptkb:medicine
botany
geology
mineralogy
zoology
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Ulisse_Aldrovandi
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7