Horror Vacui: The Horror of a Vacuum in Science and Art
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The Latin expression Horror vacui means the Horror of the vacuum. It reflects one side in one of the most fundamental debates in science and philosophy over the millennia: Can a vacuum exist? Aristotle wrote against the concept, arguing that should a vacuum exist, then motion therein would be infinitely fast. During the seventeenth century, with the work of Evangelista Torricelli, Blaise Pascal and Otto von Guericke, the idea of a vacuum being possible became widespread. Nevertheless, this idea had strong opposition, from people such as René Descartes, who insisted that there only exists a plenum of corpuscles of different granularities, with no gaps between. See my post
Horror Vacui: The Horror of a Vacuum in Science and Art
Horror Vacui: The Horror of a Vacuum in…
Horror Vacui: The Horror of a Vacuum in Science and Art
The Latin expression Horror vacui means the Horror of the vacuum. It reflects one side in one of the most fundamental debates in science and philosophy over the millennia: Can a vacuum exist? Aristotle wrote against the concept, arguing that should a vacuum exist, then motion therein would be infinitely fast. During the seventeenth century, with the work of Evangelista Torricelli, Blaise Pascal and Otto von Guericke, the idea of a vacuum being possible became widespread. Nevertheless, this idea had strong opposition, from people such as René Descartes, who insisted that there only exists a plenum of corpuscles of different granularities, with no gaps between. See my post