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OP For an excellent look into "nothingness" and "somethingness", and the discovery of "zero", check out Isaac Asimov's essay Nothing Counts, which appeared in a collection Of Time and Space and Other Things (1965) and in Asimov on Numbers (1977).
On the subject of "nothing" a quotation I encountered that comes in handy:
A witty saying proves nothing.---Voltaire
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A witty saying proves nothing
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Come to think of it.
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