Title: Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
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"--
Subjects: Science, history, Science, philosophy, Space and time, Science, History, Philosophy, Space, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern