This book claims that the casting of fast, thin images from the surface of solid objects is what enables vision.
This book claims that the casting of fast, thin images from the surface of solid objects is what enables vision. It claims that the spirit, or anima, is spread throughout the body, while the mind, or animus, is found in the chest. This work attacks the theory of homeomeria on the grounds that bones, flesh, and blood are produced from food that often does not contain those substances, and it also refutes Empedocles and Heraclitus in the same section. This work's third book gives around thirty proofs that because of the materiality of the soul, it will fall apart after death. Nevertheless, it argues because death will be just like before birth, we have nothing to fear. It reconciles human freedom with the fixed motion of atoms by postulating that atoms sometimes swerve at random. For 10 points, name this six-volume Epicurean poem by Lucretius.
This book claims that the casting of fast, thin images from the surface of solid objects is what enables vision.
On the Nature of Things [or On the Nature of the Universe; or De rerum natura]