![]() ![]() Namely, Lucretius explores 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 poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. ![]() Opening of Pope Sixtus IV's 1483 manuscript of De rerum natura code: lat promoted to code: la, scribed by Girolamo di Matteo de TaurisÄ®picureanism, ethics, physics, natural philosophyÄe rerum natura code: lat promoted to code: la ( Latin: On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius ( c. ![]()
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