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Los datos geográficos en la descripción de Hispania en la "Naturalis Historia" de Plinio

Revista de Historiografía, 2017
Resumen: El objetivo de este trabajo es reflexionar sobre la imagen geográfica y etnográfica de Hispania ela­borada por Plinio el Viejo en los libros III y IV de la Naturalis Historia, en el marco de su descrip­ción del orbis terrarum y del conocimiento
Pilar Ciprés
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De Caniculae voce Procynos sensu praedita

Classica Wratislaviensia. Series Altera
The article investigates the exceptional cases in which the name Canicula is used by ancient authors in the sense of ‘The Lesser Dog’. The passages discussed are Plin. Nat. hist. XVIII 268 and Hyg. Astron. II 4, 4.
Mikołaj Szymański
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Pliny and the Christians

, 1948
Many inferences have been drawn by liturgical scholars from the letter of Pliny to Trajan, Epist. x. 96, in the year 112. The purpose of this note is to suggest that such inferences are at least partly invalid.
Robert M. Grant
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Pliny Earle letter to Thomas Rotch, Leicester, 1st mo 26th 1822

Pliny Earle offers his opinion of various facets of manufacturing in the new republic. He provides extensive information about how wool should be processed and spun.
Earle, Pliny
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Edible Insects: A Historical and Cultural Perspective on Entomophagy with a Focus on Western Societies. [PDF]

Insects, 2023
Olivadese M, Dindo ML.
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Pliny Earle & Brothers letters to Thomas Rotch, Leicester, 6th mo 2nd 1812

Pliny Earle informs Thomas Rotch that his flock of merinos have successfully reproduced, he is well pleased with his sheep, and he lost no Lambs during the winter. He will rent out some of his pure breed flock to be crossed with common ewes. 7.9" x 9.6"
Pliny Earle
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Pliny Earle & Brothers letter to Alexander Skinner, Leiscester, 7th mo 13th 1811

Pliny Earle requests monies due from Thomas Rotch, around $50 for goods previously on order. Earle again asks Rotch for a report on how well the carding machine is working.
Earle, Pliny & Brothers
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La nouvelle science et la science antique : l’échec d’un désaveu de paternité ?

Diciottesimo Secolo
One of the effects of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and the polemics against the Ancients was to detach from the Belles Lettres the sciences and arts where the «progress of the human spirit» surely overcomes.
Chantal Grell
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Pliny Reasoner, Our Patron

W.B. Thompson describes Pliny Reasoner. He gives a brief biography, a recounting of his first meeting with Pliny, and the story of Pliny Reasoner establishing a Sunday School in ...
Thompson, W.B.;
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Pliny Earle letter to Thomas Rotch, Sauquoit, Oneida County, New York, 3mo 23rd 1823

Pliny Earle announces that he is quitting the woolen manufacturing business and joining his brother in the salt making business. He then imparts detailed information to Thomas Rotch regarding his experience with various kinds of cloth and machinery.7.9 ...
Earle, Pliny
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