On the nature of the universe [electronic resource] / Lucretius ; translated by Ronald Melville ; with introduction and notes by Don and Peta Fowler.

This work combines a scientific & philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. Based on the atomic theory of Epicurus, Lucretius' poem explores sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology & geology through acute observation of the beauties of the natural world &...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Oxford)
Main Author:	Lucretius Carus, Titus
Other Authors:	Melville, Ronald, Sir, Fowler, Don, 1953-1999, Fowler, Peta
Other title:	De rerum natura. English
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English Latin
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2008]
Series:	Oxford world's classics.
Subjects:	Didactic poetry, Latin > Translations into English. Philosophy, Ancient > Poetry.