1. Some early naturalists believed they hid in the bottom of the sea, to rise like the
Phoenix in the Greek legend.
a. What are some of the observations made about early naturalists in
the text?
b. Name some early naturalists. Who hid in the bottom of the sea?
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Answer:
The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a work by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to cover all ancient knowledge[citation needed]. The work's subject area is thus not limited to what is today understood by natural history; Pliny himself defines his scope as "the natural world, or life".[2] It is encyclopedic in scope, but its structure is not like that of a modern encyclopedia. It is the only work by Pliny to have survived, and the last that he published. He published the first 10 books in AD 77, but had not made a final revision of the remainder at the time of his death during the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius. The rest was published posthumously by Pliny's nephew, Pliny the Younger.
Answer:
1-a) From the text we can interpret that the early naturalist spent al lot of time wondering because they didn't have enough resources and equipments like the naturalists have today.
1-b) Some 'great' early naturalists were....(please do your own research)
Some early naturalist believed that the migratory birds hid in the bottom of the sea, just like the Phoenix in the Greek Legend.
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