Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution

"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"--

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

Cambridge University Press

מהדורות

8

עמודים

246

ISBN

9781107046733

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata