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This monograph investigates the development of human spatial
knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how
it is further shaped by various societal conditions. By taking a
thoroughly historical perspective on knowledge and integrating
results from various disciplines, this work throws new light on
long-standing problems in epistemology such as the relation between
experience and preformed structures of cognition. What do the
orientation of apes and the theory of relativity have to do with
each other? Readers will learn how different forms of spatial
thinking are related in a long-term history of knowledge.
Scientific concepts of space such as Newton's absolute space or
Einstein's curved spacetime are shown to be rooted in
pre-scientific structures of knowledge, while at the same time
enabling the integration of an ever expanding corpus of
experiential knowledge. This work addresses all readers interested
in questions of epistemology, in particular philosophers and
historians of science. It integrates forms of spatial knowledge
from disciplines including anthropology, developmental psychology
and cognitive sciences, amongst others.
This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation
and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon,
a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text
in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an
early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge that is
independent from parallel developments in ancient Greece. It is
aimed at historians of science, of knowledge and of philosophy, and
generally at readers interested in these topics from an
intercultural perspective and particularly with respect to China.
This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation
and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon,
a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text
in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an
early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge that is
independent from parallel developments in ancient Greece. It is
aimed at historians of science, of knowledge and of philosophy, and
generally at readers interested in these topics from an
intercultural perspective and particularly with respect to China.
This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of
physics now and in the past century. The focus is on the conditions
and consequences of Einstein's pathbreaking achievements that
sealed the decline of the classical notions of space, time,
radiation, and matter, and resulted in the theory of relativity.
Particular attention is paid to the implications of conceptual
conflicts for scientific views of the world at large, thus
providing the basis for a comparison of the demise of the
mechanical worldview at the turn of the 20th century with the
challenges presented by cosmology at the turn of the 21st century.
Throughout the work, Einstein's contributions are not seen in
isolation but instead set into the wider intellectual context of
dealing with the problem of gravitation in the twilight of
classical physics; the investigation of the historical development
is carried out with a number of epistemological questions in mind,
concerning, in particular, the transformation process of knowledge
associated with the changing worldviews of physics.
This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive
documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one
of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It
comprises key sources from Einstein and others who, from the late
19th to the early 20th century, contributed to this monumental
development. Some of these sources are presented here in
translation for the first time. Einstein's famous Zurich notebook,
which documents the pivotal steps toward general relativity, is
reproduced here for the first time and transcribed in its entirety.
The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these
sources that are based on a close reading of these documents
supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of
relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than
a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most
in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written.
This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive
documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one
of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It
comprises key sources from Einstein and others who from the late
19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental
development. Some of these sources are presented here in
translation for the first time. Einstein's famous Zurich notebook,
which documents the pivotal steps toward general relativity, is
reproduced here for the first time and transcribed in its entirety.
The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these
sources that are based on a close reading of these documents
supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of
relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than
a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most
in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written.
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