Representing space in the scientific revolution /
Miller, David Marshall
Representing space in the scientific revolution / David Marshall Miller - United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2014 - 235 p.
:
"The novel understanding of the physical world that characterized the scientific revolution depended on a fundamental shift in the way its protagonists understood and described space. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, spatial phenomena were described in relation to a presupposed central point; by its end, space had become a centerless void in which phenomena could only be described by reference to arbitrary orientations"--
9781107624719
Science
Science--Philosophy
Space and time
Space
530.1 MIL-D
Representing space in the scientific revolution / David Marshall Miller - United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2014 - 235 p.
:
"The novel understanding of the physical world that characterized the scientific revolution depended on a fundamental shift in the way its protagonists understood and described space. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, spatial phenomena were described in relation to a presupposed central point; by its end, space had become a centerless void in which phenomena could only be described by reference to arbitrary orientations"--
9781107624719
Science
Science--Philosophy
Space and time
Space
530.1 MIL-D