Physical science in the time of Nero

PREFACE

This book is intended primarily for English readers, to most of whom it will probably be at least new. Thomas Lodge, the well-known dramatist, published in 1614 a translation of the whole of Seneca’s prose works (except the _Apocolocyntosis_), but no English editor or commentator seems to have turned his attention to the _Quaestiones Naturales_, either before or since. Lodge...