Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
Download or Read eBook Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance PDF written by Ada Palmer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Ada Palmer |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 415 |
| Release | : 2014-10-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780674725577 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0674725573 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by : Ada Palmer
Book excerpt: Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.
