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On the Nature of Things

作者 Lucretius · 31 部分 · about 6 hours 8 minutes 阅读时间

你好,我叫 Finn,我来帮你读懂这本书。

来了,像给10岁的你讲的那样:

卢克莱修是一位罗马诗人，他想把人们从恐惧中解放出来。在这首长诗里，用威廉·埃勒里·伦纳德1916年的诗体译本，他说世界由在虚空中运动的微小原子构成。神不惩罚我们，灵魂随身体而终结，所以死亡没有什么可怕的。他的一些科学出奇地接近我们自己的科学。这一切都由丰富而歌唱的诗句承载着。

整本书用英文阅读。这里是所有章节:

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章节

Book I: Proem6 min Book I: Substance Is Eternal8 min Book I: The Void7 min Book I: Character of the Atoms7 min Book I: Confutation of Other Philosophers13 min Book I: The Infinity of the Universe10 min Book II: Proem3 min Book II: Atomic Motions13 min Book II: Atomic Forms and Their Combinations19 min Book II: Absence of Secondary Qualities13 min Book II: Infinite Worlds10 min Book III: Proem5 min Book III: Nature and Composition of the Mind15 min Book III: The Soul Is Mortal20 min Book III: Folly of the Fear of Death13 min Book IV: Proem1 min Book IV: Existence and Character of the Images9 min Book IV: The Senses and Mental Pictures30 min Book IV: Some Vital Functions11 min Book IV: The Passion of Love12 min Book V: Proem3 min Book V: Argument of the Book and New Proem Against a Teleological Concept9 min Book V: The World Is Not Eternal10 min Book V: Formation of the World and Astronomical Questions19 min Book V: Origins of Vegetable and Animal Life8 min Book V: Origins and Savage Period of Mankind4 min Book V: Beginnings of Civilization23 min Book VI: Proem5 min Book VI: Great Meteorological Phenomena, Etc.28 min Book VI: Extraordinary and Paradoxical Telluric Phenomena27 min Book VI: The Plague Athens7 min