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Ancient Natural History: Histories Of Nature (sciences Of Antiquity) by Roger Kenneth French is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French finds that the same natural-historical material was used to serve the purposes of both the Greek philosopher and the Christian allegorist, or of a taxonomist like Theophrastus and a collector of curiosa like Pliny. He argues convincingly that the motives of anci
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Roger Kenneth French
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415115452
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, History, Nature
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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