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Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 5)

Volume 3 / Book 1 — CHAPTER XX. OF SPACE.

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The Stoics and Epicureans make a place, a vacuum, and a space to differ. A vacuum is that which is void of any thing that may be called a body; place is that which is possessed by a body; a space that which is partly filled with a body, as a cask with wine.

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