Philosophy, science, art and religion are some of the fields in which the notions of void, emptiness or vacuum appear. As Jorge Luis Borges once remarked, the history of ideas is a “history of the diverse intonation of a small number of metaphors”. Void and emptiness are among those enduring metaphors.
This site offers comprehensive information on the concept of emptiness, as well as papers by Albert Ribas on this and other related topics.
This site presents a work devoted to the historical study of this concept:
Biografía del vacío.
Its philosophical and scientific history from Antiquity to the Modern Age
The author also presents other papers on a variety of topics: Other papers by Albert Ribas.
