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Ancient Natural History explores how people in the ancient world understood and interpreted the natural environment, examining foundational texts from Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, and Pliny alongside the everyday beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French investigates how identical natural-historical material served vastly different purposes across cultures and disciplines - from Greek philosophical inquiry to Christian allegorical interpretation, and from systematic taxonomy to eclectic curiosity collecting. This scholarly work challenges conventional assumptions about ancient thought, arguing that the motivations driving ancient writers on nature were seldom scientific in the modern sense, and demonstrates that organised science as we know it did not truly exist in antiquity. The book provides essential context for understanding how classical civilisations approached knowledge of the natural world.

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Examines key classical texts including works by Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, and Pliny to reveal ancient perspectives on nature.

Analyses how identical natural-historical material was repurposed to support both philosophical and religious interpretations.

Distinguishes between the systematic approach of Theophrastus and the curiosity-driven collecting methods of Pliny.

Challenges the assumption that ancient writers pursued scientific inquiry, revealing their actual motivations and intellectual contexts.

Published by Routledge as part of the Sciences of Antiquity series, offering academic rigour and historical scholarship.

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27 October 1994
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