Naturales quaestiones is a Latin encyclopedia of the natural world written by
Seneca around 65 AD. It is much shorter than the
Naturalis Historia produced by
Pliny the Elder some ten years later. It is one of the few Roman works which deals with scientific matters, although is not a systematic work, but a collection of facts of nature from various writers, Greek and Roman. Moral remarks are scattered through the work; and the intent of the encyclopedia appears to be to discover a foundation for
ethics in the knowledge of nature.