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.

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"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"--

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Science
Science--Philosophy
Space and time
Space

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