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Representing space in the scientific revolution / David Marshall Miller

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2014Description: 235 pISBN:
  • 9781107624719
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.1 MIL-D
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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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