Remarks on Space and Time in Newton, Leibniz, Euler and in Modern Physics

Kim Williams ()
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A chapter in Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art, 2011, pp 65-78 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The scientific ideas stated here and the few philosophical reflections, or to be more exact, the reflections made about philosophers, in this exposition, are intended as a contribution to the confrontation between sciences and philosophy. This confrontation has always seemed to me to be beneficial for both. Michel Ghins chose a topic where this confrontation is almost automatically present.2 “Space and time” is a theme which, since the systematic discovery of geometry by the Greeks, has always incited philosophers and scientific to think about the questions that this discovery posed and still poses. In the beginning of his systematic exposition of the Principia, Newton dedicates quite a long chapter to the problems posed by space and time in his new mechanics.

Keywords: Light Cone; Modern Physic; Linear Manifold; Absolute Space; Galilei Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0139-3_6

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