Lucretius: Discoverer of the Atom

The ancient poet philosopher, Lucretius, left a masterwork influencing the like's of Virgil and Pierre Gassendi that mysteriously disappeared for centuries... until it was rediscovered by a monk. This is Lucretius's famous philosophical poem where, through first principle reasoning, Lucretius derives that the source of all must be a small indivisible object, atoms, as well as concluding their behaviors, and the nature of man and civilization. Lucretius discovers all this through poetic vers...