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Books 3 - 6 - devoted to the geography and ethnology of Europe
Asia and Africa.
12 - 19 - are concerned , in the most part, with botany, including
forestry and agriculture (18).
20 - 27 cover medicinal botany
28 - 32 sumarize the cures to be derived from animal
sources.
-146 Roman and 329 foreign authors consulted.

The date of this translation by the leading Florentine humanist
Landino (1424-1492) doesn't seem to be known, but it
must have been completed between 1458 when Ferdinand
assumed the Throne and the date (1470) of Jenson's 1st ed.

Book XVII contains the subject of arboriculture, begun in the preceding
Books. Book XVIII deals with cerval agriculture; Book XIX [insert] Chapt 1-62 [end insert] with the
cultivation of flax and other plants used for fabrics and with vegetable
gardening.
Hunt
Cat.
"The best i if scientifically [illegible] exact [?habal?] of the 1st C AD is
found in Books XX - XXV of Pliny's Natural History"
remarkable encyclopedia of the ancient world, the major
source for most mediaeval knowledge. Divided into 37
books, it represents a compilation of 20,000 notices
exerpted by Pliny from about 2000 works in all fields
of sciences and humanities known in the 1st C.
#104148
HEHL
liber XIX begins on S1, ends on S6 with cap XI
my leaf 141.
Pliny recorded the science of Rome at its Zenith. His
duties as soldier, lawyer and governor of provinces afforded
much time for travel and observation.