Nature abhors a vacuum. — Baruch Spinoza

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Nature abhors a vacuum.

In the original Latin

Vacuum in natura non detur

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics · 1677

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Topic

Nature

Statement type

Axioms and precepts

Genre

Philosophical literature

Medium

Treatise

Time

1677

Person

Baruch Spinoza

Provenance

Current citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.

Original citation

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.

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