The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.

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Title: The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
Author: Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring :; 1656.
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Subject terms: Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.; Philosophy -- History.
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CHAP. XXI.

of Vacuum and Place.

THe second incorporeall is Vacuum, which is the solitude or vacuity of a body. In the world there is no vacuum, neither in the whole nor in any part: Beyond it there is an infinite vacu∣ity, into which the world shall be resolved. Of this already in the Chapter concerning the world.

Next is Place: Place is that which is fully occupated by the body; or, as Chrysippus defines it, that which is or may be occu∣pated by one or more things. Thus it differs from vacuity, which hath no body, and from space, which is occupated but in part, as a vessell halfe full of wine.