the void
“empty space / inane”
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
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1 expressionin the texts
De Rerum Natura
The infinite void or empty space through which atoms travel unimpeded, contrasted with resistant media like water and air.
But contrariwise the empty void cannot,
Wherewith to travel down the vast inane:
Space has no bound nor measure, and extends
On Moral Ends
The infinite empty space through which atoms move in Epicurean/Democritean physics.
Those bodies which he calls atoms — that is, particles indivisible by reason of their solidity — he holds to be carried through the infinite void, in which there is nothing highest nor lowest, nothing middle, last, or outermost, in such a way that by their collisions they cling together, and from this are produced all the things that exist and are perceived;
the atoms, the void, the images which they call eidola, by whose impact we not only see but also think;