The Preface sees the author praise his own professionalism because he lists his sources at the beginning of every book.
In one section of this work, the author writes "all men are in the same state from their last day forward as they were before their first day" and says that wishful thinking falsely invents a life that continues beyond death. The Preface sees the author praise his own professionalism because he lists his sources at the beginning of every book. The first book discusses astronomy and declares that Venus is the only heavenly body other than the sun and moon to cast a shadow. Other parts contain a biography of the Greek painter Apelles, and describe the catoblepas whose eye can make any human expire, as well as a two-headed creature called the amphisbaena. This thirty-seven volume work was dedicated to the "emperor Titus," and survives, unlike its author's 20-volume work on the history of the German Wars. Left unfinished due to that author's death in the Vesuvius eruption, FTP, name this work by Pliny the Elder, an encyclopedia on topics like geography and botany.
In one section of this work, the author writes "all men are in the same state from their last day forward as they were before their first day" and says that wishful thinking falsely invents a life that continues beyond death.
{Natural History} ( {Naturalis Historiae} )