…said, would require the universe to be unimaginably big and empty, much more so than any other observation they could make at the time would suggest. If you have the time, I recommend reading Pliny’s Natural History. I think it really shows how much more open-minded these people were than we give them credit for. They just didn’t have the technology we have.
Apropos of nothing in particular, a sentence from Pliny's Natural History: - "I myself have seen the fleece upon the living animal dyed purple, scarlet, and violet,—a pound and a half of dye being used for each,—just as though they had been produced by Nature in this form,…
>I find it hard to believe that in the millennia of recorded observations of animals, that no one observed a single instance of rock-bashing or stick-throwing. Pliny's Natural History, which every natural philosopher and biologist in the west up until the 18th century likely read, is full of observations of interesting and apparently more than instinctual animal behavior, including…
This sounded interesting so I looked it up; it seems it might be a popular misconception? > The term asbestos is traceable to Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder's manuscript Natural History and his use of the term asbestinon, meaning "unquenchable". While Pliny or his nephew Pliny the Younger is popularly credited with recognising the detrimental effects of asbestos on human beings, examination…
难道曾几何时真实性是有保障的吗？像《English as She is Spoke》、老普林尼的《自然史》（Natural History）、《锡安长老会纪要》（The Protocols of the Elders of Zion），对珍禽异兽天马行空的画作，探险家可疑的回忆录，花钱雇来的哭丧者/庆祝者/示威者，针对敌对政治/宗教……的恶毒指控
Has there been a time when authenticity was guaranteed? Books like "English as She is Spoke", Pliny's "Natural History", "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", fanciful paintings and drawings of exotic animals, explorers' dubious memoirs, paid mourners/celebrants/demonstrators, nasty allegations against rival political/religious…
……是作为给学生讲课的讲义写的。当时哲学家写的大多数文本也会包含多得多的分析。当然，老普林尼在写他的《自然史》（Natural History）时参考了第一本书和其他著作，但它最后搞成了类似《自然史傻瓜指南》（Dummy's Guide to Natural History）的东西，试图在两年内把极其宽泛的主题塞进几本书里，过程中显然搞错了好多东西。平心而论……
…written as notes for lectures to students. Most texts written by philosophers of the day would also have included a lot more analysis. Of course, Pliny referred to the first book and others in writing his Natural History, but it ended up as a sort of Dummy's Guide to Natural History, trying to compose a really wide subject matter into a few books over 2 years, and obviously getting a lot wrong in the process. It's fair…
……说，这需要宇宙大得无法想象且极度空旷，远远超出他们当时任何其他观测所能给出的暗示。如果你有时间，我推荐读读老普林尼的《自然史》（Natural History）。我觉得它真切展现了这些人比我们想象的要开明得多。他们只是没有我们如今拥有的技术而已。
…said, would require the universe to be unimaginably big and empty, much more so than any other observation they could make at the time would suggest. If you have the time, I recommend reading Pliny’s Natural History. I think it really shows how much more open-minded these people were than we give them credit for. They just didn’t have the technology we have.
顺带一提，也没什么特别的由头，老普林尼《自然史》（Natural History）里有这么句话：“我亲眼见过活生生的动物身上的羊毛被染成紫色、猩红色和紫罗兰色——每只用掉一磅半的染料——就好像它们天生就是这副模样，……
Apropos of nothing in particular, a sentence from Pliny's Natural History: - "I myself have seen the fleece upon the living animal dyed purple, scarlet, and violet,—a pound and a half of dye being used for each,—just as though they had been produced by Nature in this form,…
> 我很难相信在数千年的动物观测记录里，居然没人见过一次砸石头或者扔木棍的。老普林尼的《自然史》（Natural History）在18世纪前几乎每个西方自然哲学家和生物学家都读过，里面充斥着各种有趣的、显然超越了本能的动物行为观察，包括……
>I find it hard to believe that in the millennia of recorded observations of animals, that no one observed a single instance of rock-bashing or stick-throwing. Pliny's Natural History, which every natural philosopher and biologist in the west up until the 18th century likely read, is full of observations of interesting and apparently more than instinctual animal behavior, including…
这听起来很有意思，所以我查了一下；貌似这可能是一个普遍的误解？> “石棉（asbestos）”这个词可以追溯到罗马博物学家老普林尼的手稿《自然史》（Natural History），以及他使用的词汇“asbestinon”（意为“无法熄灭的”）。虽然老普林尼或其侄子小普林尼通常被认为发现了石棉对人体的危害，但经考证……
This sounded interesting so I looked it up; it seems it might be a popular misconception? > The term asbestos is traceable to Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder's manuscript Natural History and his use of the term asbestinon, meaning "unquenchable". While Pliny or his nephew Pliny the Younger is popularly credited with recognising the detrimental effects of asbestos on human beings, examination…
难道曾几何时真实性是有保障的吗？像《English as She is Spoke》、老普林尼的《自然史》（Natural History）、《锡安长老会纪要》（The Protocols of the Elders of Zion），对珍禽异兽天马行空的画作，探险家可疑的回忆录，花钱雇来的哭丧者/庆祝者/示威者，针对敌对政治/宗教……的恶毒指控
Has there been a time when authenticity was guaranteed? Books like "English as She is Spoke", Pliny's "Natural History", "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", fanciful paintings and drawings of exotic animals, explorers' dubious memoirs, paid mourners/celebrants/demonstrators, nasty allegations against rival political/religious…
……是作为给学生讲课的讲义写的。当时哲学家写的大多数文本也会包含多得多的分析。当然，老普林尼在写他的《自然史》（Natural History）时参考了第一本书和其他著作，但它最后搞成了类似《自然史傻瓜指南》（Dummy's Guide to Natural History）的东西，试图在两年内把极其宽泛的主题塞进几本书里，过程中显然搞错了好多东西。平心而论……
…written as notes for lectures to students. Most texts written by philosophers of the day would also have included a lot more analysis. Of course, Pliny referred to the first book and others in writing his Natural History, but it ended up as a sort of Dummy's Guide to Natural History, trying to compose a really wide subject matter into a few books over 2 years, and obviously getting a lot wrong in the process. It's fair…