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Euclid's Heritage. Is Space Three-Dimensional? (Hardcover, 1993 ed.): David Zook Euclid's Heritage. Is Space Three-Dimensional? (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
David Zook; P Janich
R3,012 Discovery Miles 30 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The three spatial characteristics of length, height and depth are used in the same unreflective way by laymen, technicians and scientists alike to describe the forms, positions and measure of bodies and hollow bodies. But how do we know that the space we live in has just these three dimensions? The question has occupied philosophers and scientists since antiquity. The answers proposed have become ever more presumptuous and have increasingly lost sight of everyday intuitions and have sacrificed explanatory power. In Euclid's Heritage Janich shows that all explanations of three-dimensionality hinge on an unreflective geometrical language which seems to accept the lack of an alternative for the three sorts of entities -- points, lines and planes -- that bound the three extended entities -- lines, planes and solids. This is a Euclidean heritage in a dual sense: Euclid himself adopted a geometrical language from the art of figure drawing, and left a tradition of doing geometry as planimetry and of doing stereometry by rotating plane figures. The systematic approach offered here starts out from operational definitions of the spatial forms -- plane, straight edge and perpendicularity -- and proofs that only three planes can intersect pairwise orthogonally. This is the constructive solution in the frame theory of action, providing an unequivocal characterisation of spatial relations in the physical world. The traditional order of geometric concepts turns out to be the most important obstacle to the methodical ordering of everyday scientific concepts.

Protophysics of Time - Constructive Foundation and History of Time Measurement (Hardcover, 1985 ed.): P Janich Protophysics of Time - Constructive Foundation and History of Time Measurement (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
P Janich
R4,453 Discovery Miles 44 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For protophysics, the fascinating and impressive constructive re-establish ment of the foundations of science by Professor Paul Lorenzen, working with his colleagues and students of the Erlangen School, no task is more central than to.furmulate a theoretical understanding of the practical art of measurement of time. We are pleased, therefore, to have a new third edition of Peter Janich's masterful monograph on the protophysics of time, available in this English translation within the Boston Studies. We also look forward to the Boston University Symposium on protophysics in april of this year within which the full program of protophysics will be critically examined by German and American physicists and philosophers, supporters and critics. We are also grateful to Paul Lorenzen for contributing his powerful instructive essay on the 'axiomatic and constructive method' which intro duces this book. March 1985 ROBERT S. COHEN Center for the Philosophy and History of Science Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKY Department of Philosophy Barnch College City University of New York vii PAUL LORENZEN CONSTRUCTIVE AND AXIOM A TIC METHOD Mathematics is like a big building with many apartments. We have at least Arithmetic and Analysis, Algebra and Topology - and we have Geometry and Probability-Theory. Very often the tenants of these different apartments seem not to understand each other. The Bourbaki movement promised a new unity of Mathematics by admit ting only the axiomatic method of Hilbert as genuine mathematical."

Protophysics of Time - Constructive Foundation and History of Time Measurement (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Protophysics of Time - Constructive Foundation and History of Time Measurement (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
P Janich
R4,342 Discovery Miles 43 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For protophysics, the fascinating and impressive constructive re-establish ment of the foundations of science by Professor Paul Lorenzen, working with his colleagues and students of the Erlangen School, no task is more central than to.furmulate a theoretical understanding of the practical art of measurement of time. We are pleased, therefore, to have a new third edition of Peter Janich's masterful monograph on the protophysics of time, available in this English translation within the Boston Studies. We also look forward to the Boston University Symposium on protophysics in april of this year within which the full program of protophysics will be critically examined by German and American physicists and philosophers, supporters and critics. We are also grateful to Paul Lorenzen for contributing his powerful instructive essay on the 'axiomatic and constructive method' which intro duces this book. March 1985 ROBERT S. COHEN Center for the Philosophy and History of Science Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKY Department of Philosophy Barnch College City University of New York vii PAUL LORENZEN CONSTRUCTIVE AND AXIOM A TIC METHOD Mathematics is like a big building with many apartments. We have at least Arithmetic and Analysis, Algebra and Topology - and we have Geometry and Probability-Theory. Very often the tenants of these different apartments seem not to understand each other. The Bourbaki movement promised a new unity of Mathematics by admit ting only the axiomatic method of Hilbert as genuine mathematical."

Euclid's Heritage. Is Space Three-Dimensional? (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993): David Zook Euclid's Heritage. Is Space Three-Dimensional? (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993)
David Zook; P Janich
R2,856 Discovery Miles 28 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

We live in a space, we get about in it. We also quantify it, we think of it as having dimensions. Ever since Euclid's ancient geometry, we have thought of bodies occupying parts of this space (including our own bodies), the space of our practical orientations (our 'moving abouts'), as having three dimensions. Bodies have volume specified by measures of length, breadth and height. But how do we know that the space we live in has just these three dimensions? It is theoreti cally possible that some spaces might exist that are not correctly described by Euclidean geometry. After all, there are the non Euclidian geometries, descriptions of spaces not conforming to the axioms and theorems of Euclid's geometry. As one might expect, there is a history of philosophers' attempts to 'prove' that space is three-dimensional. The present volume surveys these attempts from Aristotle, through Leibniz and Kant, to more recent philosophy. As you will learn, the historical theories are rife with terminology, with language, already tainted by the as sumed, but by no means obvious, clarity of terms like 'dimension', 'line', 'point' and others. Prior to that language there are actions, ways of getting around in the world, building things, being interested in things, in the more specific case of dimensionality, cutting things. It is to these actions that we must eventually appeal if we are to understand how science is grounded."

Biodiversitat - Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen und gesetzliche Relevanz (German, Hardcover, 2001 ed.): P Janich Biodiversitat - Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen und gesetzliche Relevanz (German, Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
P Janich; Edited by (board members) F. Wutscher; Edited by M. Gutmann, K. Priess
R3,440 Discovery Miles 34 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Die interdisziplinar besetzte Projektgruppe Biodiversitat der Europaischen Akademie Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, den wissenschaftlichen Sachstand aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen zusammenzutragen und die diversen, auf der Grundlage fachspezifischer Methoden entwickelten Konzepte gemeinsam zu untersuchen.In den in diesem Band versammelten Ergebnissen finden sich entsprechend neben den rein naturwissenschaftlichen auch relevante erkenntnis- und wissenschaftstheoretische Fragen sowie juristische und oekonomische Aspekte diskutiert. Damit bietet das Buch einen guten UEberblick uber den Diskussionsstand und eine solide Grundlage fur die weitere wissenschaftliche Diskussion.

Biodiversitat - Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen Und Gesetzliche Relevanz (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st... Biodiversitat - Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen Und Gesetzliche Relevanz (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2001 ed.)
P Janich; Contributions by F. Wutscher; Edited by M. Gutmann, K. Priess
R3,653 Discovery Miles 36 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die interdisziplinar besetzte Projektgruppe Biodiversitat der Europaischen Akademie Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, den wissenschaftlichen Sachstand aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen zusammenzutragen und die diversen, auf der Grundlage fachspezifischer Methoden entwickelten Konzepte gemeinsam zu untersuchen.In den in diesem Band versammelten Ergebnissen finden sich entsprechend neben den rein naturwissenschaftlichen auch relevante erkenntnis- und wissenschaftstheoretische Fragen sowie juristische und oekonomische Aspekte diskutiert. Damit bietet das Buch einen guten UEberblick uber den Diskussionsstand und eine solide Grundlage fur die weitere wissenschaftliche Diskussion.

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