In existographies, Metrodorus (c.430-350BC), aka “Metrodorus of Chios”, not to be confused with Epicurean philosopher “Metrodorus the younger” (c.331-278BC), was a Greek skeptic, astronomer, and Democritean atomic theorist (see: Greek philosophy), noted for []See main: Nature abhors a vacuumIn c.150AD, pseudo-Plutarch (Ѻ), in his The Opinions of the Philosophers, book 1, chapter 18 “Of a Vacuum”, stated the following: [1]
“All the natural philosophers form Thales to Plato rejected a vacuum. Empedocles says that there is nothing of a vacuity in nature, nor anything superabundant. Leucippus, Democritus, Demetrius, Metrodorus, and Epicurus as say that the atoms are in number infinite; and that a vacuum is infinite in magnitude. The stoics say that within the compass of the world there is no vacuum, but beyond it the vacuum is infinite. Aristotle says that the vacuum beyond the world is so great that the heaven has liberty to breath into it, for the heaven is fiery.”
“Metrodorus of Chios, and astronomer, contended that the world has always been in existence.”— Otto Guericke (1672), New Magdeburg Experiments on the Vacuum of Space (pgs. 2-3)
“To consider that the earth is the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to believe that in an entire field of millet only one grain will grow.”— Metrodorus (c.380BC) [1]