Ada Palmer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago.
The great atomist poet has finally attracted the attention that
students of modern culture should have given him long ago. Seeing
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about Lucretius in the Renaissance will take Ada Palmer’s book as
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whose ideas lit the flames of modernity.
*Brian Copenhaver, University of California, Los Angeles*
This is a brilliant scholarly work that is deeply relevant to
today. In exploring the influence of Lucretius on the Renaissance,
Ada Palmer shows how the modern world became open to the
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fascinating look at how ideas ripple and spread.
*Walter Isaacson*
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