Plato's theory of space and the geometrical composition of the elements

Pierre Duhem

pp. 21-25

in: Milič Čapek (ed), The concepts of space and time, Berlin, Springer, 1976

Abstract

The physics of Plato's Timaeus appears to be closely related to the physics of Leucippus and Democritus.¹ The role which they attribute to non-being, to nothing-at-all, to the void (τòμη òν, τ ò κɛνòν), Plato attributes to what he calls space (η χώρα).²

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Plato