Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : 9780674725577
ISBN-13 : 0674725573
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Download or read book Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance written by Ada Palmer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.


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