Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781107046733
Subjects: Science, history; Science, philosophy; Space and time
Description: "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"--