Gordon Campbell: Lucretius on Creation and Evolution, Gebunden
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution
Buch
- A Commentary on de Rerum Natura, Book Five, Lines 772-1104
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press (UK), 01/2004
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780199263967
- Item number:
- 5230514
- Volume:
- 400 Pages
- Weight:
- 566 g
- Format:
- 226 x 146 mm
- Thickness:
- 34 mm
- Release date:
- 29.1.2004
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory (first century BC) is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It is a mechanistic theory that does away with the need for any divine design, and has been seen as a forerunner of Darwin's theory of evolution. This commentary seeks to locate Lucretius in both the ancient and modern contexts. The recent revival of creationism makes this study particularly relevant to contemporary debate, and indeed, many of the central questions posed by creationists are those Lucretius attempts to answer.
Biography
Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester. The subject of Northern Renaissance art is one of his principal interests. As an art historian he has written widely on Renaissance art and architecture (notably in his award-winning Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance). He has published widely on many subjects relevant to the Renaissance, including literature and history as well as art, and has a wealth of editorial experience, much of it for OUP, for which he has edited both journals and reference books, of which the most recent is Renaissance Art and Architecture (2004). His scholarly work has been recognized by the award of a D.Litt from the University of York and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and as a Corresponding Fellow of the South African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Gordon Campbell
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution
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