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(1976) The concepts of space and time, Dordrecht, Springer.

Plato's theory of space and the geometrical composition of the elements

Pierre Duhem

pp. 21-25

The physics of Plato's Timaeus appears to be closely related to the physics of Leucippus and Democritus.1 The role which they attribute to non-being, to nothing-at-all, to the void (τòμη òν, τ ò κɛνòν), Plato attributes to what he calls space (η χώρα).2

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1727-5_3

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Duhem, P. (1976)., Plato's theory of space and the geometrical composition of the elements, in M. Čapek (ed.), The concepts of space and time, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 21-25.

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