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Lucretius

DescriptionEnglish: Lucretius pointing to the casus, the downward movement of the atoms, from the frontispiece of a 1714 edition of Thomas Creech’s translation of Lucretius
Date1714
SourceT. Lucretius Carus of the Nature of Things (https://archive.org/details/tlucretiuscaruso01lucr/page/n5/mode/2up)
AuthorDesigned by “T. C.” (possibly Thomas Creech, died 1700); drawn and engraved by M. Burghers