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Lucretius III : a history of motion by Thomas Nail is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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For Lucretius, history means something surprisingly different than we ordinarily think. Instead of thinking of history in terms of time, he thought of it in terms of motion. This book unpacks the implications of this unique kinetic philosophy of history. In the final volume of his trilogy on Lucretius, Thomas Nail argues that in books five and six of De Rerum Natura, Lucretius described a world born to die - long before humans theorised about thermodynamics or began to see the catastrophic conse
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Thomas Nail
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474464246
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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