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    London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc
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    gbv_1694783553
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 163 p)
    Edition: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: Also issued in print
    ISBN: 9781472539908
    Series Statement: Classical inter/faces
    Content: "Lucretius' On the Nature of Things - one of the glories of Latin literature - provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive, and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in nineteenth-century England. But in the twentieth century, despite its vital contributions to modern thought and civilisation, it has been largely neglected by common readers and scientists alike. This book offers an extensive description of the poem, with special emphasis on its cheerful version of materialism and on its attempt to devise an ethical system that suits such a universe. It surveys major relevant texts form the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Dryden, Diderot, Voltaire, Tennyson, Santayana) and speculates on why Lucretius and the ancient scientific tradition he championed has become marginalised in the twentieth century. It closes with a discussion of what value the poem has for students of science and technology in the new century: what advice it has to offer us about how to go about reinventing our machines and our morality."--Bloomsbury Publishing
    Content: pt. 1. The poem itself -- pt. Our Lucretius.
    Note: First published in 2000 by Gerald Duckworh & Co. Ltd , Includes bibiliographical references and index , Also issued in print. , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web , Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781472502285
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781472502278
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780715628829
    Additional Edition: Available in another form
    Language: English
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