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Quotes from Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles — Robert Grosseteste

1175–1253 England

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The space of the real physical world must be considered full, that is a plenum, because a vacuum could have no physical existence.

Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles (1230)

Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.

Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles (1230)

In a vacuum which is imagined as infinite there cannot be local differences, both on account of its infinity, and also because of the fact that the vacuum, if it exists, would have no nature but a privation, and therefore it can have no natural differences.

Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles (1230)

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