Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution

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Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution

"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"--

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246

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Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Sep 15, 2016, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
2014, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
2014, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
2014, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
2014, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
2014, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
2014, Cambridge University Press
in English

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Library of Congress
Q125.2 .M55 2014

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Open Library
OL28537490M
ISBN 13
9781107046733
LCCN
2014007595
OCLC/WorldCat
879329476

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OL20235215W

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