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Gaio Plinio Secondo, named Pliny the Elder (23-79 d. BC), Roman senator, writer and scientist. He held several important military positions and in 79 d. C. he was the chief of the fleet at Cape Misenum, near Naples. It was his interest in natural phenomena that prompted him to go toward the eruption of Vesuvius with a boat suffocating by the fumes.
The episode is described in detail by his nephew Pliny the Younger in a letter to Tacitus. In his honor the kind of eruption that affected Pompeii, Herculaneum and other Vesuvian cities, is called “Plinian eruption”.
Pliny the Elder is the author of the encyclopedia called Naturalis Historia, thirty-seven books dedicated to the Emperor Titus, containing type arguments of astronomy, geography, ethnology, zoology, botanic and other natural sciences.
PLINY THE ELDER
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