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Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

By Ada Palmer

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After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic physics, a sophisticated system that explained natural phenomena without appeal to divine participation, and argued powerfully against the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, and a creator God.Ada Pal...Show more

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9780674725577

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Harvard University Press

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2014

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1

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Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

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Hardcover

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