A short summary of the author's award winning book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swerve:_How_the_World_Became_Modern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swe

A short summary of the author's award winning book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swerve:_How_the_World_Became_Modern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swerve:_How_the_World_Beca... Great reading but ultimately the underlying thesis that rediscovery of Lucretius in some large way sparked the Renaissance seems like pretty thin gruel.