Lucretius and the history of science

In Stuart Gillespie & Philip R. Hardie (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius. Cambridge University Press (2007)
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Abstract

An overview of the influence of Lucretius poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) on the renaissance and scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, and an examination of its continuing influence over physical atomism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Monte Johnson
University of California, San Diego
Catherine Wilson
CUNY Graduate Center

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