books.google.nl - This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the seventeenth century, and, more broadly, their influence on the evolution of natural science and moral and political...http://books.google.nl/books/about/Epicureanism_at_the_Origins_of_Modernity.html?hl=nl&id=NSz8Dzn_nQgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEpicureanism at the Origins of Modernity