FREE NATURAL HISTORY: A SELECTION PDF Pliny The Elder,Gaius Plinius Secundus,John Healey | 448 pages | 03 Dec 1991 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780140444131 | English | London, United Kingdom What is natural selection? | Natural History Museum The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag. See details for additional description. Skip to main content. About this product. Stock photo. Brand new: Lowest price The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Books will be free of page markings. See all 7 brand new listings. Buy It Now. Add to cart. About this product Product Information 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 danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny himself died Natural History: A Selection investigating the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79, and the natural curiosity that brought about his death is also very much evident in the Natural History -- a book that proved highly influential right up until the Renaissance and that his nephew, Pliny the younger, described 'as Natural History: A Selection of variety as nature itself'. John Natural History: A Selection. Healy has made a fascinating and varied selection from the Natural History for this clear, modern translation. 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Natural history encompasses scientific research but is not limited to it. The meaning of the English term "natural history" a calque Natural History: A Selection the Latin historia naturalis has narrowed progressively with time, while, by contrast, the meaning of the related term "nature" has widened see also History below. In antiquity"natural history" covered essentially anything connected with natureor used materials drawn from nature, such as Pliny the Elder 's encyclopedia of this titlepublished circa 77 to 79 AD, which covers astronomygeographyhumans and their technologymedicineand superstitionas well as animals and plants. Medieval European academics considered knowledge to have two main divisions: the humanities primarily what is now known as classics and divinitywith science studied largely through texts rather than observation or experiment. The study of nature revived in the Renaissance Natural History: A Selection, and quickly became a third branch of academic knowledge, itself divided into descriptive natural history and natural philosophythe analytical study of nature. In modern terms, natural philosophy roughly corresponded to modern physics and chemistrywhile natural history included the biological and geological sciences. The two were strongly associated. During the heyday of the gentleman scientistsmany people contributed to both fields, and early papers in both were commonly read at professional science society meetings such as the Royal Society and the French Academy of Sciences —both founded during the 17th century. Natural history had been encouraged by practical motives, such as Linnaeus' aspiration to improve the economic condition of Sweden. Modern definitions of natural history come from a variety of fields and sources, and many of the modern definitions emphasize a particular aspect of the field, creating a plurality of definitions with a number of common themes among them. For example, while natural history is most often defined as a type of observation and a subject of study, it can also be defined as a body of knowledge, and as Natural History: A Selection craft or a practice, in which the emphasis is placed more on the observer than on the observed. Definitions from biologists often focus on the scientific study of individual organisms in their environment, as seen in this definition by Marston Bates: "Natural history is the study of animals and Plants—of organisms. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the level of the individual—of what plants and animals do, how they react to each other and their environment, how they are organized into larger groupings like populations and communities" [6] and this more recent definition by D. Wilcove and T. Eisner: "The close observation of organisms—their origins, their evolution, their behavior, and their relationships with other species". This focus on Natural History: A Selection in their environment is also echoed by H. Greene and J. Losos: "Natural history focuses on where organisms are and what they do in their environment, including interactions with Natural History: A Selection organisms. It encompasses changes in internal states insofar as they pertain to what organisms do". Some definitions go further, focusing on direct observation of organisms in their environments, both past and present, such as this one by G. Bartholomew: "A student of natural history, or a naturalist, studies the world by observing plants and Natural History: A Selection directly. Because organisms are functionally inseparable from the environment Natural History: A Selection which they live and because their structure and function cannot be adequately interpreted without knowing some Natural History: A Selection their evolutionary history, the study of natural history embraces the study of fossils as well as physiographic and other aspects of the physical environment". A common thread in many definitions of natural history is the inclusion of a descriptive component, as seen in a recent definition by H. Greene: "Descriptive ecology and ethology". Herman, who defines the field as "the scientific study of plants and animals in their natural environments. It is concerned with levels of organization from the individual organism to the ecosystem, and stresses identification, life history, distribution, abundance, and inter-relationships. It often Natural History: A Selection appropriately includes an esthetic component", [11] and T. Fleischner, who defines the field even more broadly, as "A practice of intentional, focused attentiveness and receptivity to the more-than-human world, guided by honesty and accuracy". Lopez, who defines the field as the "Patient interrogation of a landscape" while referring to the natural history knowledge of the Eskimo Inuit. A slightly different framework for natural history, covering a similar range of themes, is also implied in the scope of work encompassed by many leading natural history museumswhich often include elements of anthropology, geology, paleontology, and astronomy Natural History: A Selection with botany and zoology, [14] [15] or include both cultural and natural components of the world. The plurality of definitions for this field has been recognized as both a weakness and a strength, and a range of definitions has recently been offered by practitioners in a recent collection of views on natural history. Natural history begins with Aristotle and other ancient philosophers who analyzed the diversity of the natural world. Natural history was understood by Pliny the Elder to cover anything that could be found in the world, including living things, geology, astronomy, technology, art, and humanity. It was widely read