The Philosophy of Space and Time
By: translated by Maria Reichenbach and John Freund ; with introductory remarks by Rudolf Carnap. --
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: June 1, 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780486604435
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Popular astronomy; Space and time; Mind & Body; Mathematics; Philosophy; Cosmology; General; Science / Physics; Relativity (Physics)
Description: "An important landmark in the developmant of the empiricist conception of geometry, this book is still one of the clearest and most valuable expositions of the crisis in physical science and mathematics occasioned by the advent of the non-Euclidean geometries. With unusual depth and clarity, it covers the problem of the foundations of geometry, the theory of time, the theory and consequences of Einstein's relativity including: relations between theory and observations, coordinate definitions, relations between topological and metrical properties of space, the psychological problem of the possibility of a visual intuition of non-Euclidean structures, and many other important topics in modern science and philosophy."--Back cover.
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