Lucretius and the history of science

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In Stuart Gillespie & Philip Hardie (eds.), The Cambridge companion to Lucretius. New York: Cambridge University Press (2007)
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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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