Who rediscovered De rerum natura in a German monastery in 1417?
Thomas Aquinas
Martin Luther
Poggio Bracciolini
Erasmus
Answer
Poggio Bracciolini rediscovered De rerum natura in a German monastery in 1417. This work was a philosophical poem by the Roman poet Lucretius, written in the 1st century BC. It expounds on the atomic theory of Epicurus and expounds on a wide range of other topics, including religion, cosmology, ethics, and politics.
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