The Void and Emptiness Site – Biography of Emptiness

This book by Albert Ribas, subtitled Its philosophical and scientific history from Antiquity to the Modern Age, aims to be an exhaustive study of the concept of void or emptiness. It covers different historical periods and intellectual fields, focusing especially on philosophy and the history of science.

For centuries, Western thought struggled to accept the existence of emptiness and even the consistency of the concept itself. This deep aversion was traditionally known as horror vacui.