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Lucretius and the Modern World by Walter Ralph Johnson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Lucretius' On the Nature of Things - one of the glories of Latin literature - provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive, and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in nineteenth-century England. But in the twentieth century, despite its vital contributions to modern thou
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Walter Ralph Johnson
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781472502285
- Category
- nonfiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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