The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

Honestly, riveting. Lucretius wrote “On the Nature of Things” in the first century BCE - using poetry to describe a theory of atoms and the physical world that resonates today. The poem was almost lost to time, but rediscovered in the Renaissance and helped to help stir up, in Greenblatt’s telling, the modern world. I love a gripping history and this doesn’t disappoint.