On the Nature of Things is a philosophical work by the Roman author Titus Lucretius Carus (whom we call “Lucretius”). It was written in the early 50s BC, in Latin. Though this is a work of science and philosophy, it is also a poem. This work provides a detailed description of Epicurean philosophy, which encompasses theories of atoms. THE NATURE OF THINGS TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS must have been born soon after BC and is likely to have died before his poem was given to the world, probably in the 50s BC. Almost nothing is known about his life. He was a Roman citizen and a friend of Gaius Memmius, a Roman politician, and his poem was read and admired by Cicero. It. Titus Lucretius Carus―Lucretius―was a Roman poet and philosopher (ca. 99 BC – ca. 55 BC). His only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things. Frank /5(11).
Lucretius' The Nature of Things (in Contemporary American English Prose) (Paperback) Titus Lucretius. Published by Independently Published, United States, ISBN ISBN The influence of On the Nature of Things was so pervasive in European culture that, for one historian at least, Charles Darwin's claim (in answer to suggestions that he may have derived the idea of natural selection from Lucretius) that he had not read the poem seems rather like Milton's claiming he had not read Genesis before writing Paradise. On the Nature of Things is a philosophical work by the Roman author Titus Lucretius Carus (whom we call "Lucretius"). It was written in the early 50s BC, in Latin. Though this is a work of science and philosophy, it is also a poem. This work provides a detailed description of Epicurean philosophy, which encompasses theories of atoms.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, Verified Purchase. “The Nature of Things” (“De Rerum Natura” in Latin) by Titus Lucretius Carus is a first century BC poem, introducing and explaining Epicurean philosophy to the Romans. “The Nature of Things” (“De Rerum Natura” in Latin) by Titus Lucretius Carus is a first century BC poem, introducing and explaining Epicurean philosophy to the Romans. Although written three centuries after the life of Epicurus, the book is the most complete overview of Epicurean teaching as well as one of the great Latin poems. there are many "scientific" howlers and wild conjectures in lucretius, amusing to read today, but there are also many passages where logic, analogy or observation are turned to some astonishingly perceptive insights about the world -- including a concise rebuttal of "intelligent design" in the universe. the remarkable ambition of this poem dispels easy ridicule, and provides a fascinating window into the earliest forms of scientific reasoning. in every line lucretius seeks to replace.
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