Theories Of The Universe: From Babylonian Myth To Modern Science

By Galileo Galilei, Milton K. Munitz, F. M. Cornford, Nicolaus Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Lucretius, Plato, Thorkild Jacobsen, Theodor Gomperz, Claudius Ptolemy

Lucretius On The Nature Of The Universe

By Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, Translated And Introduced By R. E. Latham

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 contentme...

On The Nature Of The Universe

By Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius

A seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophyWith a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more bac...

The Nature Of Things

By Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, Lucretius; Translated By Alicia Stallings, Translated And With Notes By A.E. Stallings, Introduction By Richard Jenkyns

The acclaimed translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve“A plague . . . tests us in unique ways. . . . Only if you can face the invisible bullets all around us,...

On The Nature Of The Universe

By Titus Lucretius Carus, Ronald Melville, Lucretius, With An Introduction And Notes By Don And Peta Fowler

`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poe...

De Rerum Natura

By Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, Cyril Bailey, Titus Lucretius Carus, Cyril Bailey

V. 1. Prolegomena, Text And Critical Apparatus, Translation -- V. 2. Commentary, Books I-iii -- V. 3. Commentary, Books Iv-vi, Addenda, Indexes, Bibliography. Edited With Prolegomena, Critical Appa...

De Rerum Natura: V

By C. D. N. Costa, Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, Lucretius, C. D. N. Costa (Editor)

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 contentme...

De Rerum Natura (Oxford Classical Texts) (Bks.1-6) (Latin Edition)

By Cyril Bailey, Titus Lucretius Carus, C. Bailey, Lucretius

On The Nature Of The Universe

By Titus Lucretius Carus, Peta Fowler, Lucretius, Don Fowler

This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially...

Selections From Lucretius

By Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius