| Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist, listed a number of such techniques in his Historial Naturalis. |
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| His loquacious and witty Historia naturalis offered an expansive definition of this subject. |
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| The first edition of Magia Naturalis was published in Naples in 1558 and included a description of a pinhole camera, in terms very similar to Leonardo's account. |
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| Vespasian was Josephus' sponsor and Pliny dedicated his Naturalis Historia to Titus, son of Vespasian. |
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| Around 77 AD, Pliny the Elder described birds, among other creatures, in his Historia Naturalis. |
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| It was a problem posed by Wren that serves as an ultimate source to the conception of Newton's Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis. |
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| The methods are described in great detail by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia. |
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| Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis, repeats Aristotle's observations. |
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| Naturalis Historia comprised 37 books, which included a volume which detailed the correct way in which to launch a spear off the back of a horse. |
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| Later authors such as Pliny the Elder mentioned this story in the gold mining section of his Naturalis Historia. |
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| Pliny the Elder provides a detailed description of gold mining in book xxxiii of his Naturalis Historia, most of which has been confirmed by archaeology. |
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| In 1141 Robert of Cricklade wrote the Defloratio Historiae Naturalis Plinii Secundi consisting of nine books of selections taken from an ancient manuscript. |
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| Pliny the elder, in his Historia Naturalis, lists the Hermunduri as one of the nations of the Hermiones, all descended from the same line of descent from Mannus. |
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