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Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BC – ca. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem on Epicureanism De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things or "On the Nature of the Universe". User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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00 - Preface and Remarks on the life and poem of Lucretius
10201 - Book I, pt 1 - Invocation and Dedication of the poem. Praise of Epicurus. The theory of the atom.
10304 - Book 2, pt 1 - Praise of philosophy. Properties of the atoms: weight, combination, swiftness.
7403 - Book 1, pt 3 - Attack on the theory of Anaxagoras. The universe is boundless, limitless and has no center. Praise of philosophy.
6502 - Book I, pt 2 - Time doesn't have a real existence. Atoms are solid and indivisible. Attack on the theory of Empedocles.
6607 - Book 3, pt 1 - Eulogy of Epicurus. Denial of divine power over the world. The fear of gods and the fear of death torment men and lead them into crimes. Difference between mind and soul. Both mind and soul are corporeal,i.e., composed of atoms like th
5718 - Book 6, pt. 3 - About the temperature of waters. About magnets and why metals are attracted to them. About the origin and cause of diseases. Description of the plague that depopulated Athens during the Peloponnesian war.
4805 - Book 2, pt 2 - Attack on those who refuse the theories of Epicurus. Properties of the atoms: atoms are constantly in motion, and tend to move downwards. Figure, flavor, surface of atoms. The different kinds of atoms are many, but not infinite.
4906 - Book 2, pt 3 - Compound bodies contain atoms of different figures. The infinite number of atoms moving through infinite space creates an infinite number of bodies.
41012 - Book 4, pt 3 - Motion in animals and motion in images. Sleep and causes of dreams. Love and desire and their influence.
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