TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Catherine
TI  - Epicureanism at the origins of modernity
SN  - 0199238812
AV  - B512 .W55 2008
U1  - 187 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
KW  - Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
KW  - Atomism
KW  - Materialism
KW  - Mechanism (Philosophy)
KW  - Philosophy, Modern
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-296) and index; Atomism and mechanism -- Corpuscular effluvia : between imagination and experiment -- Order and disorder -- Mortality and metaphysics -- Empiricism and mortalism -- Some rival systems -- The social contract -- The problem of materialism in the New essays -- Robert Boyle and the study of nature -- The sweetness of living
ER  -