So little is known about the life of Lucretius beyond his birth and death dates that even scholars, with their zeal for filling in lacunae, can only surmise from some casual phrases that he went insane, that his work was edited by Cicero and that he committed suicide.
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Philosophers of Science: Lucretius, Nicholas Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin and Henri Bergson
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Philosophers of Science: Lucretius, Nicholas Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin and Henri Bergson (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints)
June 23, 2005, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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"So little is known about the life of Lucretius beyond his birth and death dates that even scholars, with their zeal for filling in lacunae, can only surmise from some casual phrases that he went insane, that his work was edited by Cicero and that he committed suicide."
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