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Gaius Plinius Secundus (23/24 in Novum Comum, nowerday Como - 79 in Stabie), known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), a comprehensive thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural world, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field.
Plinius Secundus, Gaius. "Bücher und Schrifften, von Natur, Art und Eygenschafft aller Creaturen oder geschöpffe Gottes". Frankfurt am Main: J. Bringer, 1618. Smaller 4to. (16), 627, (20) pp. with numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Parchment binding from the time.