Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Horror vacui (física)" in Portuguese language version.
Descartes, it can be justly said, is the founder of the other main school of the “mechanical philosophy” of the 17th Century, which stood in direct opposition to atomism on the issue of the possibility of a vacuum and which adapted the Aristotelian doctrines on the nature of time, space, and motion to the new world view.