De Rerum Natura
by Lucretius
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a six-book Latin poem by Lucretius, written in the first century BC to set out Epicurean atomism. Rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1417, it was first printed at Brescia in 1473.
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- De rerum natura, Wikipedia, 2026 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Lucretius, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2023 (plato.stanford.edu)
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