4. VACUI RATIONE. OBSERVABILITY AND CAUSAL POWERS OF A NONENTITY
The notion of the vacuum is transmitted to early modern natural philosophy mainly in two versions: macroscopic void space, as a component of standard atomist theories; and microscopic void spaces interspersed within matter, that according to the pneumatic literature can be forcefully collected into...
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| Language: | English |
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Università degli Studi di Torino
2013-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas |
| Online Access: | http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jihi/article/view/412 |