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Lucretius Carus Titus
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This epic poem on the teachings of Epicurus, a sage who saw Science, and a simple life, as the road to human happiness. The poem’s three sections discuss, respectively, the…
Titus Lucretius Carus
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
The Nature of Things By Titus Lucretius Carus
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An epic poetic work by Lucretius discussing the laws of nature and the universe, inspired by the philosophy of Epicurus.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally…
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing…
Expounds the coherent and eloquent system of materialism surviving from the ancient world. This book discusses the motion of atoms, natural phenomena, sensation, free will, and the soul’s relation to…
Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
De Rerum Natura, the great didactic poem by philosopher and poet Lucretius, is presented here complete in the author's original Latin. Drawing on the atomism theory of Democritus, dating over…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…