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MUNRO was the chief scholar in Cambridge fifty years ago, and his study of Lucretius gave him a prestige such as pure scholarship confers no longer upon any man. He was a perfect editor in his own scholarly way; yet he brought little sympathy and less knowledge to bear on the scientific doctrines taught in the great scientific poem which he edited. He admits that Lucretius has produced “a very complete and systematical account of the natures and properties which belong to the two great constituents of the universe, matter and void”; but Munro says bluntly that “We of course care not for the scientific value or truth of the poem, but for its poetical grandeur and efficacy upon our imaginations.”
T. Lucreti Cari de Rerum Natura libri sex
With Notes and a Translation by H. A. J. Munro. Fourth edition, finally revised. Vol. 2: Explanatory Notes. With an Introductory Essay on the Scientific Significance of Lucretius, by Dr. E. N. da C. Andrade. Pp. xxii + 424. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.; Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co., 1928.) 12s. 6d. net.
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THOMPSON, D. T Lucreti Cari de Rerum Natura libri sex. Nature 121, 565–567 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121565a0
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