"""Historia Naturalis"" was a major work by whom?"
Lost work a prayer book almost 300 years later. Works may be recovered in libraries as a lost or mislabeled codex, a palimpsest, or even as a part of another book or codex. Most known missing works are described by works or compilations that survive, such as the "Naturalis Historia" of Pliny the Elder or the "De Architectura" by Vitruvius. Sometimes authors destroyed their own works. Other times they instructed others to destroy the work after their deaths; such action was not taken in several well-known cases, such as that of Virgil's "Aeneid", which was saved by Augustus, and Kafka's novels, which
Historia naturalis palmarum Historia naturalis palmarum Historia naturalis palmarum: opus tripartitum ("Natural History of Palms, a work in three volumes") is a highly illustrated, three-volume botanical book of palms ("Arecaceae") by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. The work is in Latin and was published in imperial folio format in Leipzig ("Lipsiae") by T.O. Weigel, volume one in 1823 and the final volume in 1850. It includes more than 550 pages of text and 240 chromolithographs, including views of habitats and botanical dissections. "Historia naturalis palmarum" was based on Martius' travels in Brazil and Peru with zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix from