For vacuum rightly conceived of is merely a mathematical quantity extended in the three dimensions, existing per se without heat and cold, soft and hard, rare and dense, and without any natural quality, merely occupying space, as the philosophers maintained before Aristotle, not only within the heavens, but beyond.


Opus Majus (Volume 2), Part Five, Ninth Distinction, Chapter II (p. 485)

Roger Bacon Quotes

For vacuum rightly conceived of is merely a mathematical quantity extended in the three dimensions, existing per se without heat and cold, soft and...

For vacuum rightly conceived of is merely a mathematical quantity extended in the three dimensions, existing per se without heat and cold, soft and...

For vacuum rightly conceived of is merely a mathematical quantity extended in the three dimensions, existing per se without heat and cold, soft and...

For vacuum rightly conceived of is merely a mathematical quantity extended in the three dimensions, existing per se without heat and cold, soft and...