“In a vacuum which is imagined as infinite there cannot be local differences, both on account of its infinity, and also because of the fact that the vacuum, if it exists, would have no nature but a privation, and therefore it can have no natural differences.”

Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles (c. 1230-1235)

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English bishop and philosopher 1175–1253

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