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English: The Roman poet Lucretius pointing to the casus, the downward movement of the atoms. From the frontispiece to T. Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things, translated by Thomas Creech, second and third editions, Oxford and London 1682–1683. Reproduced from the edition by [John Digby], 2 vols., London 1714. Designed by “T. C.”, possibly Thomas Creech (1659–1700). Drawn and engraved by Michael Burghers (1650–1727).
Date (original ca. 1682)
Source T. Lucretius Carus of the Nature of Things (https://archive.org/details/tlucretiuscaruso01lucr/page/n5/mode/2up)
Author Designed by “T. C.” (possibly Thomas Creech, died 1700); drawn and engraved by M. Burghers

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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 (1682).

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