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The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day, the Natural History compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors.
1980: Pline l'Ancien, histoire naturelle, 1-46 (L'Afrique du Nord), texte établi, traduit et commenté, éd. Les Belles Lettres, Paris; 1988: Les Routes millénaires (in collaboration with M. Mollat du Jourdin), éd. Nathan, Paris; 1993: Sur les routes antiques de l’Azanie et de l’Inde.
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), known in English as Pliny the Elder (/ ˈ p l ɪ n i / PLIN-ee), [1] was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi (French: [istwaʁ natyʁɛl]; English: Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet) is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749–1804, initially by the Comte de Buffon, and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his ...
Manuel de botanique, contenant les propriétés des plantes utiles, 1764; Essai sur l’histoire naturelle des courges, 46 pp. Panckoucke, Paris 1786.; Histoire naturelle des fraisiers contenant les vues d'économie réunies à la botanique et suivie de remarques particulières sur plusieurs points qui ont rapport à l'histoire naturelle générale, Didot jeune, Paris 1766. on line at ...
Histoire naturelle des animaux domestiques, 1770. Histoire naturelle du règne végétal, 1774. Histoire générale et économique des trois ordres, 1775. Neueste Heilkunde oder Heilungsmittel, die entweder ganz neu erfunden, oder zur Cur macher höchst verzweifelter und fürchterlicher Krankheiten von neuem eingeführt worden sind.
Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac (1723–1788) was a French naturalist.. Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac was born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, the son of an adviser of the king.He became a lawyer at the Parliament of Lyon between 1748 and 1765, Director of the post office, Warehouse keeper of tobacco and Receiver of the Lottery of Saint-Etienne, but is especially known as a naturalist.
Two years later, with Antoine Risso (1777–1845), he published Histoire naturelle des orangers (Natural history of the orange trees). In 1818, Poiteau went to French Guiana where he supervised the cultures of the plantations of the royal houses. Back in France in 1822, he was appointed head gardener of the castle of Fontainebleau.