David Marshall Miller
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
David Marshall Miller · 2014
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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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 8
- Pages
- 246
- ISBN
- 9781107046733
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