Lucretius
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The philosopher Lucretius is the hero of the story, and Lightman recounts how the Roman’s works played a key role in the development of his own thinking.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
Lucretius adopts a material atomism that holds that things are composed of atoms in motion.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In Britain, Lady Jane Grey translated Euripides and, in the 17th century, Lucy Hutchinson produced the first complete translation into English of Lucretius.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2017
The event’s closest analog was an ambitious book club, the kind that convenes every month to muddle through Lucretius or Joyce.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2014
As we have seen, the ‘corpuscularian philosophy’, as Boyle called it, was based on the teachings of Epicurus and Lucretius, opponents of all religion.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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