SOURCE: Minadeo, Richard. “The Great Design.” In The Lyre of Science: Form and Meaning in Lucretius's “De Rerum Natura,” pp. 31-54. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969.
In the following excerpt, Minadeo attempts to explain the meaning of De rerum natura largely through study of its design and structure.
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