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Book Synopsis The Atomic Theory of Lucretius by : Fleeming Jenkin
Download or read book The Atomic Theory of Lucretius written by Fleeming Jenkin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Atomic Theory of Lucretius" is a scientific essay written by Fleeming Jenkin which deals with principles of atomic theory covering the theory of matter and a postulate by Lucretius. Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. Atomic theory traces its origins to an ancient philosophical tradition known as atomism, elaborated by Roman philosopher Lucretius. According to this idea, if one were to take a lump of matter and cut it into ever smaller pieces, one would eventually reach a point where the pieces could not be further cut into anything smaller.
Book Synopsis Lucretius and the Atomic Theory by : John Veitch
Download or read book Lucretius and the Atomic Theory written by John Veitch and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Atomic Theory of Lucretius Contrasted with Modern Doctrines of Atoms and Evolution by : John Masson
Download or read book The Atomic Theory of Lucretius Contrasted with Modern Doctrines of Atoms and Evolution written by John Masson and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura by : Don Fowler
Download or read book A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura written by Don Fowler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In Lucretius on Atomic Motion Don Fowler produces a commentary of Lucretius like no other. His commentary achieves the status of a meta-commentary... what makes this commentary claim our attention is the range of texts, both poetic and philosophical, ancient and modern, that Fowler brings to bear in revealing the deep background --and the later fortune - of Lucretius' poem.' -Diskin Clay, Times Literary SupplementThis is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De rerum natura. The late Don Fowler sets new standards for Lucretian studies in his awesome command both of the ancient literary, philological, and philosophical background to this Latin Epicurean poem, and of the relevant modern scholarship.
Book Synopsis The Atomic Theory of Lucretius by : Fleeming Jenkin
Download or read book The Atomic Theory of Lucretius written by Fleeming Jenkin and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lucretius and the Atomic Theory by : John Veitch
Download or read book Lucretius and the Atomic Theory written by John Veitch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Book Synopsis The Atomic Theory of Lucretius by : John Masson
Download or read book The Atomic Theory of Lucretius written by John Masson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Atomic Theory of Lucretius: Contrasted With Modern Doctrines of Atoms and Evolution In modern scientific thought we find a parallel which helps us to realize how Lucretius's atomic theory taught him to regard Nature, and how his conception of Matter developed into a naive theory of Evolution. Recent inquiry and Specula tion regarding the process of Evolution, the. Origin of Life and the potency of Matter, as illustrated by Tyndall's famous Presidential address, will enable us to realize more clearly, by comparison, what Lucretius's actual belief on these points was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Atomic Theory of Lucretius by : John Masson
Download or read book The Atomic Theory of Lucretius written by John Masson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Atomic Theory of Lucretius: Contrasted With Modern Doctrines of Atoms and Evolution It is strange that the Greek atomic theory, of which Lucretius is the sole exponent, has not, long before this, been set in a clear and detailed form before the English reader. In Professor Veitch's little book ('Lucretius and the Atomic Theory,' 1875), only fifteen pages (pp. 10-25) deal with Lucretius's theory of atoms, and that only in a general way, while the rest of the volume is occupied with a very able criticism of modern Materialism. The scope of Professor Sellar's work does not allow him to enter at all minutely into the science of Lucretius, though his chapter on the connecting links between Lucretius's science and his poetry is most valuable. Zeller has indeed given us in his 'Pre-Socratic Philosophy' an admirable sketch of the system of Democritus, but his account of the later development of the atomic theory in the hands of Epicurus is by no means equally complete. Lange's short chapters on Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius in his 'History of Materialism' contain acute enough criticism, though in Ins statement of facts Lange is by no means so trustworthy as Zeller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Atomic Theory written by John Masson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Atomic Theory of Lucretius by : J. Masson
Download or read book Atomic Theory of Lucretius written by J. Masson and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Of the Nature of Things by : Titus Lucretius Carus
Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lucretius and the Atomic Theory (Classic Reprint) by : John Veitch
Download or read book Lucretius and the Atomic Theory (Classic Reprint) written by John Veitch and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lucretius and the Atomic Theory There is a somewhat popular impression that speculation, or abstract thought, and imagination are incompatible. Perhaps they are rarely found together in remarkable exercise in the same individual; and this, while no proof of their incompatibility, is quite sufficient to satisfy a popular logic. I should be very sorry, indeed, to think that they are incompatible; for I do not know any greater help to the speculative power, or better corrective of vagueness in speculation, than imagination. The more you can individualise thought, the more clear it becomes, the less verbal, the more real; and all individualising, all embodiment of the abstract, is an imaginative effort, and often a very hard one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Atomic Theory of Lucretius by : John Masson
Download or read book The Atomic Theory of Lucretius written by John Masson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most fierce and fiery discussions on theological matters resolve themselves into disputes about words is a commonplace; but such a work as this anew proves that the same to a very great extent applies in philosophy. Men differ as they do, largely because they use terms differently, and refuse to look patiently from each other's point of view. Mr. F. Harrison warmly insists, for example, that there is no need for Comtists to spell humanity with a big H, however enthusiastic they may be; while his opponents triumphantly insist that to be consistent they must do so; and Sir James Stephen refuses to regard this assertion as aught but nonsense. One cannot regard the writings of Lucretius, or the theory of atoms which he propounded, without being at once pulled up in front of the question, What is matter? and the somewhat warm replies of modern philosophers do not tend to make matters easier. Yet here lies the whole gist of the subject. Mr. Masson is not ambitious enough to aim at an exhaustive definition on his own account, but he points out with no little discrimination the defects in the definitions of Professors Huxley and Tyndall, and other writers of our day, as well as in the conclusions of thinkers like Mr. Picton; and he deserves all praise for the careful and thoughtful style in which he has analyzed the doctrines of the Epicurean philosophy, and more especially-as he was in duty bound to do-the doctrines of Lucretius. He shows in the clearest manner that Lucretius - pace Mr. Robert Buchanan and those who lead or follow him-was no cut and dry materialist, but something so different that he may well be regarded as the teacher of ideas in effect identical with those which are in our own day revolutionizing science and philosophy. Lucretius held, in reality, something in common with the 'mind-stuff of Professor Clifford, for if he persists in regarding matter as dead, his theory of atoms includes soul-atoms, in some of which volition is vested; and in these are logically found the bases for free-will, which no mere materialist could assert. Will, with Lucretius, is held so to act on matter that Mr. Masson ingenuously writes: "Lucretius' conception of Declination as a movement so exceedingly slight, the tiny soul-atom swerving from the straight line "not more than the least possible" degree at the impulse of its own Freewill-does not this come pretty near to Herschel's "no greater force than is required to remove a single material molecule from its place through a space inconceivably minute" (p. 117)? This, which seems formally mechanical, is in reality moral. Of course Mr. Masson dwells, as he could not help doing, on the grand lacuna in the philosophy of Lucretius-his total failure to account for consciousness. Lucretius admitted no more than sensation, which he holds is felt in the body as a whole, and not in any part separately, and yet he insisted on the sense of free-will. But Mr. Masson has made it clear that Lucretius, if he did not clearly formulate all his conceptions, perceived the necessity of founding on personal experience; and if he did not see his way to accept the immortality of the soul, this was a defect, for the principle of free-will logically implied it. One of the happiest summaries of the points of relationship between Lucretius and Professor Clifford and his school of thinkers is thus given by Mr. Masson: 'The reasoning of both is based on the same principle, and both apply it with equal boldness. The question is an instructive one. In both cases materialism, finding itself hard pressed, escapes as it were by a back-door, and, in so doing, unconsciously confesses its own powerlessness to account, unaided, for the origin of life and thought. In one point the pagan has the advantage of the modern philosophy, in showing none of the bitterness against all forms of religious belief.... -The British Quarterly Review, Volume 80 [1884]
Book Synopsis Approaches to Lucretius by : Donncha O'Rourke
Download or read book Approaches to Lucretius written by Donncha O'Rourke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Book Synopsis Lucretius and the Atomic Theory by : John Veitch
Download or read book Lucretius and the Atomic Theory written by John Veitch and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Lucretius and the Atomic Theory - Scholar's Choice Edition by : John Veitch
Download or read book Lucretius and the Atomic Theory - Scholar's Choice Edition written by John Veitch and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Lucretian Renaissance by : Gerard Passannante
Download or read book The Lucretian Renaissance written by Gerard Passannante and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this strain of ancient Greek philosophy survived and was transmitted to the Renaissance primarily by means of a poem that had seemingly been lost—a poem insisting that the letters of the alphabet are like the atoms that make up the universe. By tracing this elemental analogy through the fortunes of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things, Passannante argues that, long before it took on its familiar shape during the Scientific Revolution, the philosophy of atoms and the void reemerged in the Renaissance as a story about reading and letters—a story that materialized in texts, in their physical recomposition, and in their scattering. From the works of Virgil and Macrobius to those of Petrarch, Poliziano, Lambin, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Gassendi, Henry More, and Newton, The Lucretian Renaissance recovers a forgotten history of materialism in humanist thought and scholarly practice and asks us to reconsider one of the most enduring questions of the period: what does it mean for a text, a poem, and philosophy to be “reborn”?
