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Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms

Science Stories by BBC

Dec 19, 201827:46Science & Medicine

Naomi Alderman's tale is of Lucretius, author of a 2000 year old poem that theorised about atoms and the natural world. Written in the first century BCE, during a chaotic and frightening time when the Roman Republic was...

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Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms is an episode from Science Stories by BBC. Naomi Alderman's tale is of Lucretius, author of a 2000 year old poem that theorised about atoms and the natural world. Written in the first century BCE, during a chaotic...

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