| Author: | Ada Palmer | ISBN: | 9780674967083 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | October 13, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ada Palmer |
| ISBN: | 9780674967083 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | October 13, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
