Johnson, Monte and Wilson, Catherine (2006) Lucretius and the History of Science. [Preprint]
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The essay is to be published in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (ed. P. Hardie and S. Gilispie). It provides an overview of the influence of Lucretius on the renaissance, early modern, modern, and twentieth century science, including cosmology, physics, chemistry, and life sciences.
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| Keywords: | Lucretius, Epicurus, Democritus, atom, atomism, matter, materialism, atheism, Conches, Fracastoro, Bruno, Scaliger, Basso, Telesio, Bacon, Sennert, Magnenus, Beeckman, Descartes, Gassendi, Newton, Hobbes, Cavendish, Charleton, Boyle, Leibniz, Kant, Hume, Darwin, Dalton, Maxwell, Mach, Duhem, Bohr, Schrodinger, Perrin, Heisenberg |
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Science and Religion Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Reductionism/Holism General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Rhetoric of Science Specific Sciences > Chemistry |
| Depositing User: | Monte Johnson |
| Date Deposited: | 04 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 11:14 |
| Item ID: | 2705 |
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2705 |
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