Avicenna and Gentile da Foligno, woodcut (extract), edition of the Canon and its commentary by Gentile da Foligno, Venice 1520. Public domain via Wikipedia Commons
This gem:
At Physics II.8, however, Avicenna had undertaken a detailed analysis and critique of the idea of void and found it empty…
is on page 19 of Jon McGinnis (2015). A Small Discovery: Avicenna’s Theory of Minima Naturalia. Journal of the History of Philosophy 53 (1):1-24
It needs no explanation.
Posted on August 9, 2017 by Aaron Thomas-Bolduc