Medieval Explanations and Interpretations of the Dictum that ‘Nature Abhors a Vacuum’
Of the numerous real and hypothetical experimental illustrations invoked against the existence of natural and artifical vacua during the Latin Middle Ages, two may be singled out as especially prominent: the clepsydra and the separation of two surfaces. The descriptions and explanations of these two...
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Cambridge University Press
1973
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Traditio
Year: 1973, Volume: 29, Pages: 327-355 |
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