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On the Nature of Things

Titus Lucretius Carus

Original title: De rerum natura

Also published as: Of the Nature of Things

earliest edition we have, 1821 A. Mondadori, 1992 519 pages

Classici greci e latini — book 17

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 contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discover...

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This book in English

Cyril Bailey 2 printings we hold · 2005–2007 · Kessinger Publishing
Ronald E. Latham 1 printing we hold · 1994 · Penguin Classics
Anthony M. Esolen 1 printing we hold · 1995 · The Johns Hopkins University Press
Ronald Melville 1 printing we hold · 1998 · Oxford University Press, USA
A. E. Stallings 1 printing we hold · 2007 · Penguin

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Editions we hold

Of the Nature of Things edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781021544681
Von der Natur der Dinge; edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781021550118
Nature of Things edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781021936615
On the Nature of Things edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781019382561
On the Nature of Things edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781021175410
Of the Nature of Things edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781020198045
De Rerum Natura edition · 2022 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781016437301
De Rerum Natura edition · 2022 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781018987644
On the Nature of Things edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798447268572
De Rerum Natura edition · 2022 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781016636537
Of the Nature of Things edition · 2022 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781019168806
De Rerum Natura edition · 2022 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781016631624

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