Index:The Natural History of Pliny.djvu

Title	The Natural History of Pliny
Author	Pliny, the Elder
Translator	Bostock, John, 1773-1846; Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1816-1878
Year	1855
Publisher	H. G. Bohn
Location	London
Source	djvu
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Cover - - - - - Half-title - Title iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii xiv xv xvi xvii xviii xix xx xxi - xxiii xxiv xxv xxvi xxvii xxviii 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 Erratum - - - - - - - Cover

CONTENTS.
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

BOOK I.
	DEDICATION.	Page
C. Plinius Secundus to his friend Titus Vespasian		1
BOOK II.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS.
Chap.
1.	Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world	13
2.	Of the form of the world	16
3.	Of its nature; whence the name is derived	ib.
4.	Of the elements and the planets	18
5.	Of God	20
6.	Of the nature of the stars; of the motion of the planets	25
7.	Of the eclipses of the moon and the sun	34
8.	Of the magnitude of the stars	35
9.	An account of the observations that have been made on the heavens by different individuals	36
10.	On the recurrence of the eclipses of the sun and the moon	38
11.	Of the motion of the moon	40
12.	Of the motions of the planets and the general laws of their aspects	ib.
13.	Why the same stars appear at some times more lofty and at other times more near	42
14.	Why the same stars have different motions	47
15.	General laws of the planets	48
16.	The reason why the stars are of different colours	49
17.	Of the motion of the sun and the cause of the irregularity of the days	50
18.	Why thunder is ascribed to Jupiter	51
19.	Of the distances of the stars	52
20.	Of the harmony of the stars	ib.
21.	Of the dimensions of the world	53
22.	Of the stars which appear suddenly, or of comets	55
23.	Their nature, situation, and species	66
24.	The doctrine of Hipparchus about the stars	59
25.	Examples from history of celestial prodigies; Faces, Lampades, and Bolides	ib.
26.	Trabes Cælestes; Chasma Cœli	60
27.	Of the colours of the sky and of celestial flame	ib.
28.	Of celestial coronæ	61
29.	Of sudden circles	62
30.	Of unusually long eclipses of the sun	ib.
31.	Many suns	ib.
32.	Many moons	63
33.	Daylight in the night	ib.
34.	Burning shields	ib.
35.	An ominous appearance in the heavens, that was seen once only	ib.
36.	Of stars which move about in various directions	64
37.	Of the stars which are named Castor and Pollux	ib.
38.	Of the air, and on the cause of the showers of stones	65
39.	Of the stated seasons	66
40.	Of the rising of the dog-star	67
41.	Of the regular influence of the different seasons	ib.
42.	Of uncertain states of the weather	69
43.	Of thunder and lightning	ib.
44.	The origin of winds	70
45.	Various observations respecting winds	71
46.	The different kinds of winds	73
47.	The periods of the winds	75
48.	Nature of the winds	77
49.	Ecnephias and Typhon	79
50.	Tornadoes; blasting winds; whirlwinds, and other wonderful kinds of tempests	80
51.	Of thunder; in what countries it does not fall, and for what reason	ib.
52.	Of the different kinds of lightning and their wonderful effects	81
53.	The Etrurian and the Roman observations on these points	82
54.	Of conjuring up thunder	83
55.	General laws of lightning	84
56.	Objects which are never struck	86
57.	Showers of milk, blood, flesh, iron, wool, and baked tiles	87
58.	Rattling of arms and the sound of trumpets heard in the sky	88
59.	Of stones that have fallen from the clouds The opinion of Anaxagoras respecting them	ib.
60.	The rainbow	89
61.	The nature of hail, snow, hoar, mist, dew; the forms of clouds	90
62.	The peculiarities of the weather in different places	91
63.	Nature of the earth	ib.
64.	Of the form of the earth	94
65.	Whether there be antipodes?	ib.
66.	How the water is connected with the earth. Of the navigation of the sea and the rivers	97
67.	Whether the ocean surrounds the earth	98
68.	What part of the earth is inhabited	100
69.	That the earth is in the middle of the world	102
70.	Of the obliquity of the zones	ib.
71.	Of the inequality of climates	ib.
72.	In what places eclipses are invisible, and why this is the case	104
73.	What regulates the daylight on the earth	105
74.	Remarks on dials, as connected with this subject	106
75.	When and where there are no shadows	107
76.	Where this takes place twice in the year and where the shadows fall in opposite directions	108
77.	Where the days are the longest and where the shortest	ib.
78.	Of the first dial	109
79.	Of the mode in which the days a are computed	110
80.	Of the difference of nations as depending on the nature of the world	ib.
81.	Of earthquakes	111
82.	Of clefts of the earth	112
83.	Signs of an approaching earthquake	114
84.	Preservatives against future earthquakes	ib.
85.	Prodigies of the earth which have occurred once only	115
86.	Wonderful circumstances attending earthquakes	116
87.	In what places the sea has receded	ib.
88.	The mode in which islands rise up	117
89.	What islands have been formed, and at what periods	118
90.	Lands which have been separated by the sea	119
91.	Islands which have been united to the main land	ib.
92.	Lands which have been totally changed into seas	ib.
93.	Lands which have been swallowed up	120
94.	Cities which have been absorbed by the sea	ib.
95.	Of vents in the earth	121
96.	Of certain lands which are always shaking, and of floating islands	122
97.	Places in which it never rains	123
98.	The wonders of various countries collected together	ib.
99.	Concerning the cause of the flowing and ebbing of the sea	124
100.	Where the tides rise and fall in an unusual manner	127
101.	Wonders of the sea	128
102.	The power of the moon over-the land and the sea	ib.
103.	The power of the sun	129
104.	Why the sea is salt	ib.
105.	Where the sea is the deepest	130
106.	The wonders of fountains and rivers	131
107.	The wonders of fire and water united	138
108.	Of Maltha	138
109.	Of naphtha	139
110.	Places which are always burning	ib.
111.	Wonders of fire alone	141
112.	The dimensions of the earth	143
113.	The harmonical proportion of the universe	147

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