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Horror vacui (physics)

The idea was restated as "Natura abhorret vacuum" by François Rabelais in his series of books titled Gargantua and Pantagruel in the 1530s.^[7] The theory was supported and restated by Galileo Galilei in the early 17th century as "Resistenza del vacuo". Galileo was surprised by the fact that water could not rise above a certain level in an aspiration tube in his suction pump, leading him to conclude that there is a limit to the phenomenon.^[8]René Descartes proposed a plenic interpretation of atomism to eliminate the void, which he considered incompatible with his concept of space.^[5] The theory was rejected by later scientists, such as Galileo's pupil Evangelista Torricelli, who repeated his experiment with mercury.

Blaise Pascal successfully repeated Galileo's and Torricelli's experiment and foresaw no reason why a perfect vacuum could not be achieved in principle.^[9] Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle mentioned P Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree PIW