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Concepts of space : the history of theories of space in physics / Max Jammer ; foreword by Albert Einstein.
- Title
- Concepts of space : the history of theories of space in physics / Max Jammer ; foreword by Albert Einstein.
- Author
- Jammer, Max.
- Publication
- New York : Dover, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QC173.59.S65 J36 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 261 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "This Dover edition ... is an unabridged, enlarged republication of the work first published in 1954 (First edition) and 1969 (Second edition) by the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For this edition the author has written a new Preface and an entirely new chapter (Chapter 6)"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Albert Einstein -- 1. The Concept of Space in Antiquity -- 2. Judeo-Christian Ideas About Space -- 3. The Emancipation of the Space Concept from Aristotelianism -- 4. The Concept of Absolute Space -- 5. The Concept of Space in Modern Science -- 6. Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Physical Space.
- ISBN
- 0486271196 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^93008667^
- OCLC
- 28215937
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library