Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by Ada PalmerCall Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780674736054
Publication Date: 2014-10-01
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.