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De Rerum Natura

Titus Lucretius Carus

  • 289 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1486
  • 537 editions
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1 About this book

This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature.

Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.

Good for readers who want: philosophy, nature, physics, and a book they can read free online.

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  • Philosophy of nature
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3 About Titus Lucretius Carus

 

Titus Lucretius Carus ( TY-tuhs loo-KREE-shuhs; Latin:; c. 99 – October 15, 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe.

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