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Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premoder
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Authors: William Ellery Leonard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-08 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Now available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this mon
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Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired – and condemned – for its startling poetry, its evangelical fai
A Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
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Lucretius’ philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a lengthy didactic and narrative celebration of the universe and, in particular, th
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution
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Authors: Gordon Lindsay Campbell
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Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It