De rerum natura
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 Opening of De rerum natura, 1483 copy by Girolamo di Matteo de Tauris for Pope Sixtus IV |
De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through richly poetic language and metaphors. Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, "chance", and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.
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| Text Text www.thelatinlibrary.com/lucretius.html - Web |
| Summary of On the Nature of Things, by section Summary of On the Nature of Things, by section www.mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/tlc_rerumnatura.html - Web |
| Analysis Analysis lics.leeds.ac.uk/discussion/2002dp1.pdf - Web |
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| Summarizing the creationist view Summarizing the creationist view www.commonsensescience.org/atomism.html - Web |
