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''[[Natural History]]'' is an encyclopedia of sorts written by Pliny the Elder, a Roman writer and naval commander who was born in 23 A.D., and died in 79 A.D. of a heart attack while journeying to Pompeii to rescue relatives living there. ''Natural History'' is probably the [[Ur Example]] of the [[Great Big Book of Everything]], predating Isidore of Seville's ''Etymologies'' by 421 years.
Like ''Etymologies'', the point of ''Natural History'' was to document all information which was known about the world at the time. However, in hindsight, while quite a bit of the information is accurate, such as amber conducting electricity, there are also quite a few instances of [[Urban
A translation from 1861 can be found [https://archive.org/stream/plinysnaturalhis00plinrich#page/n0/mode/2up here].
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