Open AccessAstronomiczne zagadki w Historii naturalnej Pliniusza Starszego
Author(s) -
Maria Jóźwicka
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
kwartalnik historii nauki i techniki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-4020
pISSN - 0023-589X
DOI - 10.4467/0023589xkhnt.20.033.12866
Subject(s) - philosophy , history , encyclopedia , theology , literature , art , linguistics
Astronomical Riddles in the Natural History by Pliny the Elder Gajusz Pliniusz Sekundus, Historia naturalna. T. I: Kosmologia i geografia, księgi II–VI, tekst, wstęp, tłum. i komentarz I. Mikołajczyk, N. Rataj, E. Twarowska-Antczak, K. Antczak, red. I. Mikołajczyk, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2017, ss. 759. Gajusz Pliniusz Sekundus, Historia naturalna. T. II: Antropologia i zoologia, księgi VII–XI, tekst, wstęp, tłum. i komentarz I. Mikołajczyk, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2019, ss. 674. The article presents selected problems related to the Latin-Polish critical edition of the first two volumes of the Natural History by Pliny the Elder. With regard to several passages from this ancient encyclopedia, which are important for the history of astronomy, the text pinpoints the insufficiency and some inaccuracies in the scientific commentary to the second book on cosmology, both in terms of content and sources. On the selected examples from the second volume, pertaining to anthropology and zoology, the article criticizes – in comparison to previous Polish translations – the text of the new one, which is sometimes significantly inconsistent with the Latin original.