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"What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?"

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Unruly

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Naturalist

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About Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder was a Roman author, naturalist, and military commander best known for the encyclopedic Natural History. His work influenced scientific and scholarly traditions in Europe for centuries.

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