Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Nonfiction, History, Renaissance
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Author: Ada Palmer ISBN: 9780674967083
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: October 13, 2014
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Ada Palmer
ISBN: 9780674967083
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: October 13, 2014
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.

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Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.

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