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Democritus (* approx. 460 B.C., † approx. 375 B.C.)As far as in the antique Greece, philosophersreflected upon the thought of vacuum. It all began with a rather complicated expression by the philosopher Democritus, who stated: „The Ichtys“, meaning matter itself, „does not exist by any degree more than nothingness.“ What he wanted to say is, that the emptiness, so to speak the vacuum, is real. He argued further, that without the emptiness, there would never be motion, since matter can only move, if it engulves space, which needs to has been empty beforehand. |
