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Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Acknowledgements 9 Note on the text 10 Introduction: how to read an encyclopedia 11 Chapter 1 Science and encyclopedism: the originality of the Natural History 21 Science and encyclopedism: the nature of pliny's scholarship 24 Itemising nature: lists of names in the natural history 33 Mistakes and marvels: francis bacon and pliny's natural history 41 The originality of the natural history 48 Chapter 2 Diderot’s Pliny and the politics of the encyclopedia 50 Enkyklios paideia and the genre of the ancient encyclopedia 52 Common culture and roman geography 68 Diderot's pliny and the problem of posterity 85 The politics of reception 97 Chapter 3 Finding facts: the summarium in the early printed editions 102 Pliny’s preface: instructions for use 104 Editing the summarium: from manuscript to print 106 Organising pliny: the shape of the summarium 115 Using the summarium and finding the facts 120 Finding answers 138 Chapter 4 Specialist readings: art and medicine from the Natural History 142 Authority and closure in the medicina plinii 145 Eugenie sellers and pliny's book of extracts 162 Artists and attributions in the natural history 172 Speciali

Author

AUDE DOODY

Published

2009

Language

EN