Pliny the Elder - Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus, (23 - 79) better known as Pliny the Elder, an ancient important author and scientist who wrote Naturalis Historia. He was the son of a Roman eques by the daughter of the senator Gaius Caecilius of Novum Comum. He was born at Como, not (as is sometimes supposed) at Verona: it is only as a native of Gallia Transpadana that he calls Catullus of Verona his conterraneus, or fellow-countryman, not his municeps, or fellow-townsman (Praef. § I). Before A.D. 35 (N. H. xxxvii. 81) his father took him to Rome, where he was educated under his father's friend, the poet and military commander, P. Pomponius Secundus, who inspired him with a lifelong love of learning. Two centuries after the death.
Pliny - Pliny There are two famous persons named Pliny: Pliny the Elder, a Roman nobleman, scientist and historian who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD The great-nephew of the former, Pliny the Younger, a statesman, orator, and writer who lived between 62 AD and 113 AD. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Pliny the Younger - Pliny the Younger Caius Plinius Cecilius Secundus (63 - ca. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, an author and a scientist of Ancient Rome. Born in Como, Italy, Pliny the Younger was the nephew of Pliny the Elder, who is considered by many to be the greatest naturalist of antiquity. Pliny was orphaned at an early age had Virginius Rufus (an important man and general in the Roman army) as his tutor. He was later adopted by his uncle Pliny the Elder, who brought him to study in Rome, where his teachers were Quintilian and Nices Sacerdos. He started his legal career at the age of 19 and his reputation grew rapidly. Pliny was considered an honest and moderate man and rose.
Pliny's Natural History - Pliny's Natural History Pliny the Elder's Natural History is an encyclopedia written by Pliny the Elder. In its present form the natural History consists of thirty-seven books, the first book including a characteristic preface and tables of contents, as well as lists of authorities, which were originally prefixed to each of the books separately. The contents of the remaining books are as follows: II, mathematical and physical description of the world; III - VI, geography and ethnography; VII, anthropology and human physiology; VIII - XI, zoology; XII - XXVII, botany, including agriculture, horticulture and pharmacology; XXVIII - XXXII, medical zoology; XXXIII - XXXVII, mineralogy, especially in its application to life and art, including chasing in silver (xxxiii.154-751), statuary in bronze (xxxiv), painting (xxxv.15-941), modelling (151-851), and.
Vespasian - the government and the finances on a sound footing. He renewed old taxes and instituted new, increased the tribute of the provinces, and kept a watchful eye upon the treasury officials. By his own example of simplicity of life, he put to shame the luxury and extravagance of the Roman nobles and initiated in many respects a marked improvement in the general tone of society. As censor he reformed the Senate and Equestrian orders, removing unfit and unworthy members and promoting good and able men, among them Gnaeus Julius Agricola. At the same time, he made it more dependent upon the emperor, by exercising an influence upon its composition. He altered the constitution of the Praetorian Guard, in which only Italians, formed into nine cohorts, were enrolled. In 70 a formidable.
Kidinnu - was a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician. Strabo of Amaseia in Pontus and Pliny the Elder called him Kidenas or Cidenas. Kidinnu was born in Babylon. He was a contemporary of Eudoxus of Cnidus and his student Callippus of Cyzicus, and principal of the astronomical school in the Babylonian city of Sippar in Akkad (now Abu Habbah, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq). Probably Kidinnu had made complex methods and equations for calculating the irregular movements of the Moon and other planets and specially of the Sun. Because he was not as attached as Greek astronomers to the constant velocity of planets he was able to get good approximations for their movements. For the Sun, the apparent angular velocity is a minimum in aphelion, when the Earth is farthest from it. So Kidinnu developed.
Jan van Eyck - of Hubert van Eyck. Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and wife Painted 1434 The date of his birth is not more accurately known than that of his elder brother, but he was born much later than Hubert van Eyck, who took charge of him and made him his "disciple". Under this tuition John learnt to draw and paint, and mastered the properties of colours from Pliny. Later on, Hubert admitted him into partnership, and both were made court painters to Philip of Charolais. After the breaking up of the prince's household in 1421, Jan became his own master, left the workshop of Hubert, and took an engagement as painter to John of Bavaria, at that time resident at The Hague as Count of Holland. From the Hague he returned in 1424 to.
Iannes - of Exodus. These names were not given in the book of Exodus himself, but they appear in 2 Timothy III:8 in the New Testament. They also appear in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, together with Moses, as famous magicians of antiquity; Pliny's citation is also referred to in Apuleius. Numerius, a Pythagorean philosopher, calls them sacred Egyptian scribes. Origen says that there was an apocryphal book called The Book of Jannes and Jambres, containing details of their exploits, and that St Paul's epistle was quoting from it. This book has not been rediscovered. Jewish traditions in the Targums preserve other half-legendary lore about the pair. They are called the sons of Balaam, the unwitting prophet of Pelor. It was also claimed that they converted to Judaism, and that they left Egypt.
Geography of Babylonia and Assyria - Babylonian history. The primitive seaport of the country, Eridu, the seat of the worship of Ea the culture-god, was a little south of Ur (at Abu Shahrain or Nowäwis on the west side of the Euphrates). It is now about 130 miles distant from the sea; as about 46 inches of land have been formed by the silting up of the shore since the foundation of Spasinus Charax (Mu/-zamrah) in the time of Alexander the Great, or some 115 feet a year, the city would have been in existence at least 6000 years ago. The marshes in the south like the adjoining desert were frequented by Aramaic tribes; of these the most famous were the Kaldä or Chaldaeans who under Merodach-baladan made themselves masters of Babylon and gave their name in.
Glove - History 2 External sources and references 3 Specialized Gloves History Gloves appear to be of great antiquity. According to some translations of Homer's, The Odyssey, Laërtes is described as wearing gloves while walking in his garden so as to avoid the brambles. (Other translations, however, insist that Laertes pulled his long sleeves over his hands.) Herodotus, in The History of Herodotus (440 BC), tells how Leotychides was incriminated by a glove (gauntlet) full of silver that he received as a bribe. Among the Romans also there are occasional references to the use of gloves. According to Pliny the Younger (ca. 100), his uncle's shorthand writer wore gloves during the winter so as not to impede the elder Pliny's work. Gloves are also used for fashion, ceremonial, and religious purposes. British and.
Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus - the capacity of secretary and interpreter. Trogus himself seems to have been a man of encyclopaedic knowledge. He wrote, after Aristotle and Theophrastus, books on the natural history of animals and plants, frequently quoted by the elder Pliny. But his principal work was Historiae Philip picae in forty-four books, so called because the Macedonian empire founded by Philip is the central theme of the narrative. This was a general history of the world, or rather of those portions of it which came under the sway of Alexander and his successors. It began with Ninus, the founder of Nineveh, and ended at about the same point as Livy (AD 9). The last event recorded by the epitomator Justin is the recovery of the Roman standards captured by the Parthians (20 BC). He.
Guanches - appear, from the study of skulls and bones discovered, to have resembled the Cro-Magnon race of the Quaternary age, and no real doubt is now entertained that they were an offshoot of the race of Berbers which from the dawn of history has occupied northern Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Pliny the Elder, deriving his knowledge from the accounts of Juba, king of Mauretania, states that when visited by the Carthaginians under Hanno the Navigator the archipelago was found by them to be uninhabited, but that they saw ruins of great buildings. This would suggest that the Guanches were not the first inhabitants, and from the absence of any trace of Islam among the peoples found in the archipelago by the Spaniards it would seem that this extreme westerly migration.
Flat Earth - is very nearly spherical (see spherical Earth). People from early antiquity generally believed the world was flat, but by the time of Pliny the Elder (1st century) its spherical shape was generally acknowledged. Ptolemy derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude and longitude. Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the renaissance of science several centuries later, some Christian writers questioned and even opposed Earth's sphericity, although it is not clearly known how influential their views were. Even before the Renaissance began, the flat Earth theory had almost died out, yielding by the 900s or 1100s to the idea that Earth is a globe. Some Christians in England and America tried to revive Flat Earth thinking in the 19th century, and a few hold.
England - United Kingdom by some, which is inaccurate and can be offensive. Other terms for England include "Blighty", from the Hindustani "bila yati" meaning "foreign"; "this Green and Pleasant Land", from William Blake's poem Jerusalem. "Albion" was used by writers such as Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy in the 1st century, in reference to the white (Latin: "alba") cliffs of Dover. England (In Detail) () Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (God and my right) Official language None, English is de facto Capital London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Unification 9th Century by Egbert of Wessex Currency Pound Sterling Time zone UTC+0 National anthems God Save the Queen Unofficial: Land of Hope and Glory Jerusalem Table of contents.
1st century - Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon. Buddhism reaches China. Significant persons: Jesus Christ Saint Paul Pliny the Elder Tacitus Seneca Josephus Nero Titus Boudicca Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions paper invented in China Decades and Years 0s BC 9 BC 8 BC 7 BC 6 BC 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC 1 BC 0s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10s 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20s 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30s 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40s 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50s 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60s 60 61 62 63 64.
23 - emperor against Wang Mang. Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate, after the death of Drusus Julius Caesar. Births Pliny the Elder, Roman scientist and writer Deaths Drusus Julius Caesar, son of the Emperor Tiberius, poisoned For the number 23, see twenty-three..
35 - 33 34 - 35 - 36 37 38 39 40 Events Pliny the Elder brought to Rome before this year. Births Quintilian, Roman rhetorician November 8 - Nerva, Roman Emperor Deaths For the number 35, see thirty-five..
47 - a fortification that will later grow out to be the city of Utrecht. Ananias become high priest in Judaea. Pliny the Elder sees military service in Germany. Roman emperor Claudius is also Roman Consul for a third time. British chieftan Caratacus takes refuge with the Ordovices. The Romans conquer the Chauci and fight against the Frisians. Births Deaths Vardanes, Arsacid king of Parthia For the number 47, see forty-seven..
70 - showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths Events The building of the Colosseum starts (approximate date). Pliny the Elder served as procurator in Gallia Narbonensis. The Roman general and future Roman Emperor, Titus Flavius, destroy the Temple in Jerusalem, leaving erect only the famous Wailing Wall. Rome stations troops in Jerusalem and abolishes the Jewish high priesthood and Sanhedrin. This becomes known as the Fall of Jerusalem. Potillius Cerealis puts down the Batavian rebellion of Civilis. Frontinus is praetor of Rome. Neapolis (Nablus) is founded in Palestine. Legio I and Legio IV Macedonica are disbanded. Legio II Adiutrix is created. Legio V Alaudae and Legio XV Primigeneia are destroyed in the Batavian rebellion. Avignon becomes the seat of a bishopric. Emperor Domitian, then an imperial prince, marries Domitia Longina Births Deaths.
73 - 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths Events The Romanss besieges Masada, held by victims of the Sicarii. Pliny the Elder serves as procurator in Hispania Tarraconensis. Domitian is a Roman Consul. Births Deaths For the number 73, see seventy-three..
