物性论（De rerum natura）

简介

A didactic poem of about 7,400 Latin hexameters in six books, addressed to a Roman named Memmius. It opens with a hymn to Venus as the creative power of nature. Books I–II explain atoms and void, Book III argues that the soul is mortal, Book IV treats perception, dreams and sexual love, Book V the origin of the world, of life and of human civilisation, and Book VI weather, earthquakes and disease, ending with the plague of Athens. The poem is the most complete surviving account of Epicurean physics. Stephen Greenblatt’s book “The Swerve” (2011) told the story of its rediscovery for a general audience.

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• 致美诺西斯的信约公元前300年年 · 伊壁鸠鲁

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• 论无限、宇宙和诸世界1584 · 乔尔丹诺·布鲁诺
• 哲学体系（Syntagma philosophicum）1658 · 皮埃尔·伽桑狄