Euclid's Heritage. Is Space Three-Dimensional?
We live in a space, we get about in it. We also quantify it, we think of it as having dimensions. Ever since Euclid's ancient geometry, we have thought of bodies occupying parts of this space (including our own bodies), the space of our practical orientations (our 'moving abouts'), a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1992, 1992
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992 |
| Series: | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One The History of the Problem
- One / The Purely Spatial Approaches
- Two / Grounding Three-Dimensionality in Motion
- Three / Argument for Three-Dimensionality from Laws of Force
- Four / Causalistic Explanations and Three-Dimensionality
- Five / The Biological and Perception-Theoretical Approaches
- Six / Euclid’s Heritage: A Review of the History of the Problem
- Two Space Is Three-Dimensional: What Does It Mean, and Why Is It True?
- Seven / Knowledge about Space
- Eight / The Construction of the Terminology
- Nine / The Spatial Concept of Dimension and Its Universality
- Appendices
- Index of Names