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The philosophy of space & time

Author: Hans Reichenbach
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications, ©1958.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Reichenbach, Hans, 1891-1953.
Philosophy of space & time.
New York, Dover Publications [1958]
(OCoLC)647059557
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hans Reichenbach
ISBN: 0486604438 9780486604435
OCLC Number: 60581261
Description: 295 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Other Titles: Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre.
Responsibility: by Hans Reichenbach ; translated by Maria Reichenbach and John Freund ; with introductory remarks by Rudolf Carnap.

Abstract:

"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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