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An edition of On the Nature of the Universe (1486)

Titi Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex

  • 3.77 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 280 Want to read
  • 24 Currently reading
  • 16 Have read

This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.

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Cover of: On the nature of the universe
On the nature of the universe
2008, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex
Cover of: On the nature of the universe
Cover of: On the nature of things
Cover of: Of the nature of things
Of the nature of things
1935, J.M. Dent & Sons, ltd., E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
in English
Cover of: Of the nature of things
Of the nature of things: a metrical translation
1916, J. M. Dent & sons, limited, E. P. Dutton & co.
Cover of: De rerum natura libri sex.
Cover of: Titi Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex
Titi Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex
1864, Deighton Bell and Co, Bell and Daldy
in Latin
Cover of: T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex
1828, Sumptibus et Typis B. G. Teubneri
Microform in Latin
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Cover of: The nature of things
The nature of things: a didactic poem.
1805, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
in English

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Edition Notes

Title vignette.

WSU MASC copy signed "Virginia Stephen, 1907" on front free endpaper of each vol.

WSU MASC copy has annotations by Virginia Woolf.

WSU MASC copy is: 002-103924411, v. 1 ; 002-103924429, v. 2.

Other Titles
De rerum natura libri sex., Lucretius.

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Pagination
2 v. ;

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OL16652858M
Internet Archive
titilucreticarid01lucr

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