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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54093238 Title: Philosophies of space and time Author: Howard K Congdon Publisher: Dallas : University Press of America, ©2003. ISBN/ISSN: 0761827323 9780761827320 OCLC:54093238

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Philosophies of space and time

Author:	Howard K Congdon
Publisher:	Dallas : University Press of America, ©2003.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Subjects	Cosmology. Ruimte-tijd-theorie. Geschichte. View all subjects
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Howard K Congdon Find more information about:
ISBN:	0761827323 9780761827320
OCLC Number:	54093238
Description:	xxii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:	Classical concepts of space and time. The concept of space in antiquity / Max Jammer -- Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus / James N. Jordan -- The atomists / James N. Jordan -- On nature / Gorgias -- The innate knowledge of geometrical truth / Plato -- Time / Aristotle -- Post Aristotelian analyses of space and time. Matter and space / Lucretius -- Time and eternity / Plotinus -- What then is time? / Augustine -- Space and time in the modern period. Space and extension / René Descartes -- Absolute space and time / Isaac Newton -- Relative space and time / Gottfried Leibniz -- Contemporary perspectives and issues. The relativity of time and space / Richard Taylor -- Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott -- Space and time / Richard Taylor -- Newton and the infinite static universe / Alan H. Guth -- Understanding the cosmos / Bertrand Russell -- The plane truth / Isaac Asimov -- Space shapes / Howard K. Congden -- Fatalism / Richard Taylor -- Must the future be what it is going to be? / R.D. Bradley.
Responsibility:	edited by Howard K. Congdon.

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