The aesthetics of scale in Pliny’s Natural History

尺度美学是普林尼《自然史》中尚未受到关注的一种表现方式。然而，对于更深入地理解自然历史来说，这是至关重要的。正如它百科全书的内容已经清楚地表明，规模在普林尼的作品中扮演着基本的角色，因为从她最伟大的作品到她最小的作品都描绘了大自然的整体。但是，尺度的意义远远超出了自然历史的内容。它还涉及代表权本身的原则。通过考虑整部作品，可以获得对普林尼百科全书式的写作的基本见解，即自然历史的元论--这是一个到目前为止还没有被探索的话题。此外，对尺度美学的探索还可以提供对自然历史所参与的文学、美学和政治思想背景和话语的洞察。特别是，自然历史尚未考虑到的崇高的概念将成为焦点。

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.