Herbals are the building blocks of the foundation of Apothecary. They are the text books that hold our knowledge. To understand apothecary we know look back at the period texts. Tonight's Herbals is....
Naturalis
Historia
Pliny the
Elder
The Death of Pliny the Elder
•Gaius
Plinius Secundus
•Born
in 23 or 24 CE in Novum Comum, a
small city in the region known as Gallia Transpadana.
•Died
in the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius while trying to rescue his friend Pomponianus and
his family.
•A
Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher.
•Also
a naval and army commander and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian.
Natural History -1470
•Earliest
known copy – Nonantulus 5th or 6th
Century
•Earliest
Manuscript - Codex Bamburgensis 10th Century
•Leidensis Vossianus -11th Century
•Codex
Parisinus Latinus – 10th or 11th
Century
•37
Books
•2,000
Manuscripts Referenced
•33,727
Items Listed
•400
Authors Referenced
•One
of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the
modern day and to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge.
•Pliny
claims to be the only Roman ever to have undertaken such a work.
•Covers
the fields of botany, zoology, astronomy, geology and mineralogy.
•His
discussions of some technical advances are the only sources for those
inventions
•It is
virtually the only work which describes the work of artists of the time
•A
true window into 1st Century Rome.
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