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"--