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Nothing. He contributed to the evolving body of speculation about the atom, by translating Epicurus who had developed his ideas from Leucippus and Democritus; but nothin to its history

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Lucretius wrote a poem called "De Rerum Natura" ( The Nature Of Things ) which helped the atomic theory survived.

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