Author: LUCRETIUS.
Title: The Nature of the Universe. (translated by Ronald Latham).
Description: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. Penguin Classics series. Lucretius (c.100-c.55 B.C). "This poet's view of the scientific attitude of his time towards matter, atoms, the workings of the mind, cosmology, and geology, inter alia, can be read today as it was intended two thousand years ago: as an appeal to a disillusioned age to tke comfort from the sanity of science." Pp.262, slight toning to pages. Paperback, crease to top front corner. G+.

Keywords: Lucretius Nature Universe Exposition Epicurus Poet Science Matter Atoms Cosmology Geology 51569 Science


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