Lucretius De Rerum Natura 2
Channel: Monte Johnson
Date: 2020-04-26

Lecture on Book II of Lucretius' didactic epic On the Nature of Things (de rerum natura, focussing on the account of the motion, collision and recombination of atoms in the void to form visible compound bodies. I use the translation of Cyril Bailey (Oxford, 1910), which is available in the public domain through the Internet Archive.