The aesthetics of scale in Pliny’s Natural History

尺度美学是普林尼《博物学》中尚未受到重视的一种表现方式。然而，它对于更深入地理解自然史是至关重要的。正如其百科全书式的内容已经表明的那样，尺度在普林尼的作品中起着至关重要的作用，因为自然的整体从最大到最小的创造物都被描绘了出来。但规模的重要性远远超出了《自然史》的内容。它也涉及到代表原则本身。通过考虑整个作品，可以获得对普林尼百科全书式写作的基本见解，即自然史的元学-这是一个直到现在还没有被探索的主题。此外，对尺度美学的探索也可以提供对自然史所参与的文学、美学和政治意识形态语境和话语的见解。特别是，崇高的概念，这还没有考虑到自然史，将被纳入重点。

The aesthetics of scale is a mode of display in Pliny’s Natural History that has not yet received any attention. It is, however, of fundamental importance for a deeper understanding of the Natural History. As its encyclopaedic content already makes clear, scale plays a fundamental role in Pliny’s work, since the totality of nature is depicted from her greatest to her smallest creations. But the significance of scale goes far beyond the content of the Natural History. It also concerns the principles of representation themselves. By taking into account the entire work, fundamental insights into Pliny’s encyclopaedic writing, i.e. the metapoetics of the Natural History can be gained – a topic, which until now has not been explored. Furthermore, the exploration of the aesthetics of scale can also provide insights into the literary, aesthetic and political-ideological contexts and discourses in which the Natural History participates. In particular, the concept of the sublime, which has not yet been taken into account for the Natural History, will be brought into focus.