Lucretius
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Lucretius adopts a material atomism that holds that things are composed of atoms in motion.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
So there he is, among this philosophical elite, who share the rediscovered wisdom of such ancient authors as Plato and Lucretius, recently rediscovered in Florence.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2020
Lucretius, as Greenblatt notes in “The Swerve,” called his own poem “honey smeared around the lip of a cup containing medicine that a sick man might otherwise refuse to drink.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2017
The Encyclopedia Dramatica page for “lulz” quotes Lucretius on the pleasures of watching a pot boil from safety.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2014
The passage originally contained a single direct quotation from Lucretius, but two more were added in 1588, and we will see in a moment that it is directly inspired by Lucretius on foedus naturae.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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