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This edition of the classic poem and seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy—which shaped human understanding of the world for centuries—brings new textual research and additional context to Lucretius’s explorations of spirit, mind, and soul. Reviser's Preface Introduction Bibliography ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE Synopsis Book One: Matter and Space Book Two: Movements and Shapes of Atoms Book Three: Life and Mind Book Four: Sensation and Sex Book Five: Cosmology and Sociology Book Six: Meteorology and Geology Notes Appendix A: The Prelude to the Poem Appendix B: Memmius Appendix C: Smallest Parts Appendix D: The Text Appendix E: The Ending of the Poem