Description: I have here for sale a book entitled DE RERUM NATURA Libri Sex by Titus Lucretius Carus, the Roman poet. There are interpretations and notes underneath the poem by Thomas Creech. It is a new edition published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford in 1807. This is the first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) 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 poetic language and metaphors. 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 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. Possibly Lucretius was the first person to come up with the theory of atoms being the building block of life. Bound in full brown leather with decorative gilt tooling to both boards and a gilt motif to the centre of the boards Universitatis Glasguensis Sigillum Commune (a school prize copy for a school in Glasgow). Spine has 4 wide raised bands, gilt lettering and tooling. Heavily rubbed to spine and a bit to board edges. Front board loose. Lovely school prize bookplate to the front endpaper. Endpapers are marbled. Speckled page edges. Pages clean and firm. 495 pages, 22 x 14 cm. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 59.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2024-11-29T19:10:45.000Z
Shipping Cost: 39.26 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 30 days
Binding: Fine Binding
Personalised: No
Non-Fiction Subject: Natural History
Language: Latin
Signed: No
Fiction Subject: Poetry, Theatre & Scripts
Region: Europe
Author: LUCRETIUS CARUS
Publisher: CLARENDON PRESS
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1807
