| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 2.112 | Plin. Nat. 2.113 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 30 |
That harmonical proportion, which compels nature to be always consistent with itself, obliges us to add to the above measure, 12,000 stadia; and this makes the earth one ninety-sixth part of the whole universe.
Summary.—The facts, statements, and observations contained in this Book amount in number to 417.
Roman Authors Quoted.—M. Varro [Note], Sulpicius Gallus [Note], Titus Cæsar [Note] the Emperor, Q. Tubero [Note], Tullius Tiro [Note], L. Piso [Note], T. Livius [Note], Cornelius Nepos [Note], Sebosus [Note], Cælius Antipater [Note],
Fabianus [Note], Antias [Note], Mucianus [Note], Cæcina [Note], who wrote on the Etruscan discipline, Tarquitius [Note], who did the same, Julius Aquila [Note], who also did the same, and Sergius [Note].
Foreign Authors Quoted.—Plato [Note], Hipparchus [Note], Timæus [Note], Sosigenes [Note], Petosiris [Note], Necepsos [Note], the Pythago-
rean [Note] Philosophers, Posidonius [Note], Anaximander [Note], Epigenes [Note] the philosopher who wrote on Gnomonics, Euclid [Note], Coeranus [Note] the philosopher, Eudoxus [Note], Democritus [Note], Critodemus [Note], Thrasyllus [Note], Serapion [Note], Dicæarchus [Note], Archimedes [Note], Onesi-
critus [Note], Eratosthenes [Note], Pytheas [Note], Herodotus [Note], Aristotle [Note], Ctesias [Note], Artemidorus [Note] of Ephesus, Isidorus [Note] of Charax, and Theopompus [Note].
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