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Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the... read more
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1. The world and this expanse - or whatever other name men are pleased to call the sky that covers the universe with its vault - are properly held to be a deity, everlasting, boundless, an entity without a beginning and one that will never end.
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- Pliny (Author)
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