Poggio Braccionlini and his discovery of the 500-year-old copy of Lucretius’ The Nature of Things, which you argue paved the way for modernity in your book, The Swerve? The immediate occasion ...

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Greek philosophers Democritus, Epicurus, and later the Roman Lucretius imagined that everything in the ... atoms, from time to time, “swerve” slightly from their straight trajectory. This deviation, ...

In the present day, pro wrestling fans know him as Swerve Strickland in All Elite Wrestling. Before that, he was known as Isaiah "Swerve" Scott in WWE. According to Strickland, the latter came as ...

called “The Swerve.” The part that really spoke to me was in the preface, in which he’s writing about when he was a young man. He came across “On the Nature of Things” by Lucretius ...

It was 2011’s Pulitzer-winning The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt. It is a complex work that follows the story of the 15th-century papal emissary Poggio Bracciolini. He ...

AEW star Swerve Strickland has had a pretty spectacular 2022. After debuting with the company in March, he and partner Keith Lee spent a big chunk of the summer as the AEW Tag Team Champions.

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt 7 tells the story ... The manuscript written in 60 BC contained the poem, The Nature of Things by Lucretius. Somehow, Lucretius figured out that matter was made ...

But Harriot was suspected throughout his career of being an atheist, and more specifically of being a disciple of the ancient Epicurean philosopher Lucretius. And Lucretius, as it happens ...

A first-century B.C. Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius was worried that our fear of death could lead to irrational beliefs and actions that could harm society. As a philosopher who has just ...