Lucretius De rerum natura

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura. [English translation The Nature of Things], W.W. Norton Co., New York, 1977. 

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura". Translated by Munro (Routledge, 1886), Book 6. Lucretius was born 95 B.c. and is believed to have committed suicide 51 b.c. 

Lucretius. De rerum natura, Ed. and trans. W. H. D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1937-... 

Among Cicero s contemporaries, the works of Lucretius (De rerum natura On the Nature of Things ) and of Sallust (Conspiracy of Catiline and Jugurthine War) are available in Penguin translations (and many others) the biography of Cicero s friend Atticus by Cornelius Nepos is translated with commentary by N. Horsfall in the Clarendon Ancient History Series (Oxford, 1989). 

Munita tenere / edita doctrina sapientum templa serena. [ To inhabit lofty, serene sanctuaries which are fortified by the teachings of the wise .] Lucretius, De rerum natura [On the Nature of Things], 2.7. 

Infrared radiation was discovered by Herschel [58] in 1800, using a mercury thermometer to detect sunlight dispersed by a prism. However, the Latin poet Lucretius in his De rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things, about 50 BC) clearly showed a clear feeling of the infrared radiation. Of course Lucretius s terminology was far from the modern one, and he had no thermometer at his disposal ... 

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Caras, 99 BCE - 55 CE) of Rome wrote a poem, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) (24) in which he described the atomic theory of Epicums of Samos (342-271 BCE). For Epicurus, atoms were indivisible, invisible, and indestmctible, and they differ in size, shape and weight. He believed that a void exists because there can be no motion of the atoms without it. The motions of atoms included the downward motion of free atoms because of their weight, swerve, the deviation of atomic motion from straight downward paths, and blow, which results from collisions and motion in compoimd bodies. Lucretius called atoms poppy seeds, bodies, principals, and shapes (25). 

In the early fifteenth century (1417 CE), De Rerum Natura by Lucretius was rediscovered. It was printed fifty-six years later in 1473 CE reintroducing the Epicurian concept of the atom and void to the western world (55). 

Lucretius Roman poet of first century B.C.E., also known as Titus Carus author of De Rerum Natura... 

The importance of symmetry in structure does not mean that the highest symmetry is the most advantageous. This can be illustrated beautifully in molecular crystals. Lucretius proclaimed two millennia ago in his De rerum natura [65] ... 

Lucretius, The Nature of Things (De rerum natura). First edition, translated by F. O. Copley. W. W. Norton Co., New York, 1977. This passage is quoted from Book VI, lines 1084-1086, p. 72. 

Although Aristotle developed a powerful matter theory, he was, like Plato, not an atomist. He argued that there were too many logical problems with the idea of indivisible, imperceptible objects that nonetheless had fixed existence. While Platonic and then later Aristotelian philosophy came to dominate Western thinking about the material world, the atomist thought of Democritus did not disappear completely. The philosophical school founded by Epicurus of Samos (341-270 b.c.e.) based its theory of matter on atoms. Our best record of Epicurean atomism comes from the Roman poet Lucretius (95—55 b.c.e.), who wrote a poem entitled De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things). Lucretius says ... 

The English translation of Titus Lucretius Caros, Poem "De Rerum Natura (The ay Things Are) is as follows ... 

Little is known about Titus Lucretius Cams beyond what can be gathered from his poem De rerum natura. He was born in about 95 B.C.E., but the exact date is uncertain. The exact date and circumstances of his death are also uncertain, but he probably died in or before the year 55 B.C.E. We do know from his poem that he believed the teachings of the Greek atomists, ranging from those of Democritus of Abdera (ca. 460 B.c.E.-ca. 362 B.C.E.) to those of Epicums (ca. 341 B.C.E.-270 b.c.e.). Unlike the writings of Democritus or Epicums, Lucretius s poem was one of the few literary works not lost to European peoples after the collapse of the classical world. 

Emii Fischer s lock-and-key analogy is just 100 years old [E. Fischer, Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges., 27, 2985 (1894)], but the basic idea of complementariness as a factor in the formation of stable associations goes back to much earlier times. It was expressed more than 2000 years ago by Lucretius in his De Rerum Natura ... 

Atomism did not die out altogether, however. The Greek philosopher Epicurus (c. 342-270 b.c.) made atomism part of his way of thought, and Epicureanism won many adherents in the next few centuries. One of these adherents was the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Cams (c.95-c.55 b.c.), usually known simply as Lucretius. He expounded the atomist viewpoint of Democritus and Epicums in a long poem entitled De Rerum Natura ( On the Nature of Things ). It is considered by many to be the finest didactic poem (one intended to teach) ever written. 

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