Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Vacuum
Nature abhors a vacuum. Fuga vacui.
[A favourite notion of the schoolmen but disproved by Toricelli and Guericke, on the invention of the air pump.]
Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Fuga vacui.
[A favourite notion of the schoolmen but disproved by Toricelli and Guericke, on the invention of the air pump.]