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The Deluge drawings of Leonardo present a unity of artistic and scientific subjects as related to the reception of Lucretius and Epicurus physics in the Renaissance. Implicit as well explicit references to De Rerum Natura in Leonardo’s manuscript and works, and specifically in the Deluge series according to recent scholarship , refer also to the narrative of the formation of the world by the play of atoms and voids in Lucretius atomistic views, as well as the meteorological teachings and descriptions in Lucretius´
poem related to the physics and the cosmology of Epicurus.