The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... Leibniz , believed that it made sense to speak of ' moving the universe from one place to another ' , whilst he thought it a merit of this view of space that it allowed the possibility of a vacuum - a place , that is to say , unoccupied ...
... Leibniz , believed that it made sense to speak of ' moving the universe from one place to another ' , whilst he thought it a merit of this view of space that it allowed the possibility of a vacuum - a place , that is to say , unoccupied ...
Síða 354
... Leibniz - and Newton - that one must specify the location of an object by reference to other things . But having specified the location of an object in this way , it is natural to speak of ' replacing the object by another ' , that is ...
... Leibniz - and Newton - that one must specify the location of an object by reference to other things . But having specified the location of an object in this way , it is natural to speak of ' replacing the object by another ' , that is ...
Síða 356
... Leibniz , too , appears to have worked by analogy from his doctrine of space . Time , for Leibniz , was ' not something distinct from temporal things ' . ' Instants ' , he said , ' considered without the things , are nothing at all ...
... Leibniz , too , appears to have worked by analogy from his doctrine of space . Time , for Leibniz , was ' not something distinct from temporal things ' . ' Instants ' , he said , ' considered without the things , are nothing at all ...
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology John David North Engin sýnishorn í boði - 1965 |
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