Call me Nocturna.
On this site I'll upload content about whichever topic catches my attention. I'm a person of many interests. See my about page to learn about them. It also reflects the site ethos.
I also have a rather extensive collection of links. I'll share the best ones just below.
Naturalis Historia from Pliny the Elder is both considered the earliest encyclopedic work and the largest work to survive from the Roman Empire.. Estimated publishing date on AD 77–79, Natural History was written by an enthusiastic military autodidact, as it was the first work with the intent of covering almost the entire knowledge corpus, managing to polish the future model and reference for the development of encyclopedias. Being researched through pantagruelian lengths, the work contains around 20,000 "facts" drawn from 2,000 literary sources, by 100+ authors. It's composed of 37 "books" (tomes) in total, which at the time ranged on covering every facet of nature; from flora and fauna (which used Aristotle Taxonomy or division of nature, with concepts such as enhaima as the modern vertebrates and anhaima as the invertebrates, and the theory of four element/humors), celestial bodies, and human variety in structure and expression! (such as art, and ethnography). Despite its archaic nature and various contemporary questionable claims (animism being a quite resonant narrative), the proto-encyclopaedia still managed to devise concepts such as intromission theory (which was just entering the optic consensus on Ibn al-Haytham Book of Optics, into the 11th century) well. Being such a complete overview on the ancient world techniques, beliefs and ideas, it's truly a magnificient artifact of natural philosophy!
Relevant Recommended Book: All the Knowledge in the World by Simon Garfield! A book entirely devoted on the history of encyclopedias, Ancient Greek, to Wikipedia. The book index is also sorted alphabetically, for a stronger attachment to the original idea!
I also recommend Sam O'Nella for a fun introduction on the topic, at least for the very first two books...
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