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Space from Zeno to Einstein Classic Readings with a Contemporary Commentary

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ISBN-10: 0262581698

ISBN-13: 9780262581691

Edition: 1999

Authors: Nick Huggett

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Space From Zeno to Einstein collects a dozen classic readings that are generally accepted as the most significant contributions to the philosophy of space.
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Preface
Plato
Reading: Timaeus
Commentary and Introduction
Euclid
Reading: The Elements
Commentary
Zeno
Reading: Plato's Parmenides
Reading: Aristotle and Simplicius on Zeno's Paradoxes
Commentary
Aristotle
Reading: Physics
Reading: On the Heavens
Commentary
The Aristotelian Tradition
Descartes
Reading: The Principles of Philosophy
Commentary
Newton
Reading: On the Gravity and Equilibrium of Fluids (De Gravitatione)
Reading: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (The Principia)
Commentary
Leibniz and Clarke
Reading: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
Commentary
Berkeley and Mach
Reading: Berkeley's De Motu
Reading: Mach's The Science of Mechanics
Commentary
Space-Time
Kant and Handedness
Reading: Concerning the Ultimate Foundation of the Differentiation of Regions of Space
Commentary
Kant and Geometry
Reading: The Critique of Pure Reason
Commentary
Poincare
Reading: Space and Geometry
Reading: Experiment and Geometry
Commentary
Einstein
Reading: The Problem of Space, Ether, and the Field in Physics
Commentary
Index