Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance / / Ada Palmer.
After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic...
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Palmer, Ada, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance / Ada Palmer. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (340 p.) : 26 halftones, 6 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 16 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1. Religion Trampled Underfoot -- 2. Unchristian Opinion -- 3. Between Fits of Madness -- 4. The Lofty Madness of Wise Lucretius -- 5. The Poverty of the Language -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Lucretius Manuscripts -- Appendix B: Capitula -- Appendix C: Lucretius Editions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic physics, a sophisticated system that explained natural phenomena without appeal to divine participation, and argued powerfully against the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, and a creator God. Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance readers, such as Machiavelli, Pomponio Leto, and Montaigne, actually ingested and disseminated Lucretius, and the ways in which this process of reading transformed modern thought. She uncovers humanist methods for reconciling Christian and pagan philosophy, and shows how ideas of emergent order and natural selection, so critical to our current thinking, became embedded in Europe's intellectual landscape before the seventeenth century. 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 the ideas that would soon transform the world. Renaissance readers-poets and philologists rather than scientists-were moved by their love of classical literature to rescue Lucretius and his atomism, thereby injecting his theories back into scientific discourse. Palmer employs a new quantitative method for analyzing marginalia in manuscripts and printed books, exposing how changes in scholarly reading practices over the course of the sixteenth century gradually expanded Europe's receptivity to radical science, setting the stage for the scientific revolution. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) HISTORY / Renaissance. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674725577 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674736054 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674736054 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674736054.jpg |
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