Table of Contents
The Natural History consists of 37 books. Pliny devised his own table of contents. The table below is a summary based on modern names for topics.
| Volume | Books | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| I | 1 | Preface and tables of contents, lists of authorities |
| 2 | Mathematical and physical description of the world | |
| II | 3 - 6 | Geography and ethnography |
| 7 | Anthropology and human physiology | |
| III | 8 - 11 | Zoology |
| IV - VII | 12 - 27 | Botany, including agriculture, horticulture and pharmacology |
| VIII | 28 - 32 | Pharmacology |
| IX - X | 33 - 37 | Mining and mineralogy, especially in its application to life and art, including: gold casting in silver statuary in bronze painting modelling sculpture in marble precious stones and gems |
Read more about this topic: Natural History (Pliny)
Famous quotes containing the words table of, table and/or contents:
“Remember thee?
Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Remember thee?
Yea, from the table of my memory
I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past
That youth and observation copied there,
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... So damn your food and damn your wines,
Your twisted loaves and twisting vines,
Your table d’hôte, your à la carte,
. . . .
From now on you can keep the lot.
Take every single thing you’ve got,
Your land, your wealth, your men, your dames,
Your dream of independent power,
And dear old Konrad Adenauer,
And stick them up your Eiffel Tower.”
—Anthony Jay (b. 1930)
“Yet to speak of the whole world as metaphor
Is still to stick to the contents of the mind
And the desire to believe in a metaphor.
It is to stick to the nicer knowledge of
Belief, that what it believes in is not true.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)