IntroductionFrancesca Masi, Pierre-Marie Morel and Francesco VerdeThinking or Speaking: The Paradoxes of the Epicurean Theory of LanguageJulie GiovacchiniLanguage Theory, Scientific Terminology, and Linguistic Controversies in Epicurus’ On NatureFrancesca MasiEpicurus and His Meteorological Lexicon in the Letter to Pythocles: Some RemarksDino De SanctisThe Fragments of Epicurus’ Letters: Scientific Debates and New PerspectivesMargherita ErbìLucretius’ Epistemological LanguageChiara RoverMedicine and Responsibility: Hippocratic and Democritean Influences on Epicurus’ Περὶ φύσεως Book XXV?Enrico PiergiacomiMedicine and Atomism: Asclepiades of Bithynia and Epicurean ScienceDavid LeithPatterns of Reception of Epicureanism in Galen’s WritingsVincenzo Damiani Gravity and the Shape and Location of the EarthDavid KonstanThe Method of Multiple Explanations RevisitedVoula TsounaThe Explanation of Meteorological Phenomena in the Philosophical Inscription of Diogenes of OinoandaJürgen HammerstaedtGassendi’s Interpretation of Epicurus’ Method of Multiple Explanations: Between Scepticism and ProbabilismFrederik BakkerObservation, Probabilism, and Humanist Methods of History in Pierre Gassendi’s MeteorologyCraig MartinAbout the contributorsIndex of Ancient NamesIndex of Modern NamesNew perspectives on Epicureanism in the fields of language, medicine, and meteorologyEpicureanism is not only a defence of pleasure: it is also a philosophy of science and knowledge. This edited collection explores new pathways for the study of Epicurean scientific thought, a hitherto still understudied domain, and engages systematically and critically with existing theories. It shows that the philosophy of Epicurus and his heirs, from antiquity to the classical age, founded a rigorous and coherent conception of knowledge. This first part of a two-volume set examines more specifically the contribution of Epicureanism in the fields of language, medicine, and meteorology (i.e., celestial, geological and atmospheric phenomena).Offering a renewed image of Epicureanism, the book includes studies on the nature of human language and on the linguistic aspects of scientific discourse; on the relationship between Epicureanism and ancient medicine, from Hippocrates to Galen; on meteorological phenomena and the method of explaining them; and on the reception of Epicurus's legacy in Gassendi.Epicureanism is not only a defence of pleasure: it is also a philosophy of science and knowledge. This edited collection explores new pathways for the study of Epicurean scientific thought, a hitherto still understudied domain, and engages systematically and critically with existing theories. It shows that the philosophy of Epicurus and his heirs, from antiquity to the classical age, founded a rigorous and coherent conception of knowledge. This first part of a two-volume set examines more specifically the contribution of Epicureanism in the fields of language, medicine, and meteorology (i.e., celestial, geological and atmospheric phenomena).Offering a renewed image of Epicureanism, the book includes studies on the nature of human language and on the linguistic aspects of scientific discourse; on the relationship between Epicureanism and ancient medicine, from Hippocrates to Galen; on meteorological phenomena and the method of explaining them; and on the reception of Epicurus's legacy in Gassendi.