Source - Some translators refer to multiple Latin editions only the primary Latin source text (if known) is noted here.Publication - The name of the work as published ISBNs and links to PDFs when available other publication information.Year - The year of first publication (except where * indicates year of composition).Notable translations of individual passages include the "invocation to Venus" by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene IV.X.44-47 and five passages in John Dryden's Sylvae (1685). Only complete (or nearly complete) translations are listed. Only a few more English translations appeared over the next two centuries, but in the 20th century translations began appearing more frequently.
Its earliest published translation into any language (French) did not occur until 1650 in English - although earlier partial or unpublished translations exist - the first complete translation to be published was that of Thomas Creech, in heroic couplets, in 1682. The poem was lost during the Middle Ages, rediscovered in 1417, and first printed in 1473. North British Review, 1868.Lucretius, Roman poet and Hutchinson, possibly his earliest English translator.ĭe rerum natura (usually translated as On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical epic poem written by Lucretius in Latin around 55 BCE. Yet when we have found a mechanical theory by which the phenomena of inorganic matter can be mathematically deduced from the motion of materials endowed with a few simple properties, we must not forget that Democritus, Leucippus, and Epicurus began the work and we may even now recognize their merit, and acknowledge Lucretius not only as a great poet, but as the clear expositor of a very remarkable theory of the constitution of matter. We are not wholly without hope that the real weight of each atom may some day be known, and their number in each material that the form and motion of the parts of each atom, and the distance they are separated, may be calculated that the motions by which they produce light, heat, and electricity may be illustrated by exact geometrical diagrams then the motion of the spheres will be neglected for a while, in admiration of the maze in which the tiny atoms turn. The description of the Lucretian atom is wonderfully applicable to the chemical atom, the existence of which, already quite a complex little world, is highly probable.
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