Space from Zeno to Einstein

Classic Readings with a Contemporary Commentary

By: Nick Huggett

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Learning through original texts can be a powerful heuristic tool. This book collects a dozen classic readings that are generally accepted as the most significant contributions to the philosophy of space. The readings have been selected both on the basis of their relevance to recent debates on the nature of space and on the extent to which they carry premonitions of contemporary physics. In his detailed commentaries, Nick Huggett weaves together the readings and links them to our modern understanding of the subject. Together the readings indicate the general historical development of the concept of space, and in his commentaries Huggett explains their logical relations. He also uses our contemporary understanding of space to help clarify the key ideas of the texts. One goal is to prepare the reader (both scientist and nonscientist) to learn and understand relativity theory, the basis of our current understanding of space. The readings are by Zeno, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Clarke, Berkeley, Kant, Mach, Poincar‚, and Einstein.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Science Science in General History of Science Physics Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)Philosophy of Science Astronomy, Space & Time

Preface	p. ix
Plato	p. 1
Reading: Timaeus	p. 1
Commentary and Introduction	p. 3
Euclid	p. 15
Reading: The Elements	p. 15
Commentary	p. 21
Zeno	p. 29
Reading: Plato's Parmenides	p. 29
Reading: Aristotle and Simplicius on Zeno's Paradoxes	p. 31
Commentary	p. 37
Aristotle	p. 53
Reading: Physics	p. 53
Reading: On the Heavens	p. 61
Commentary	p. 72
The Aristotelian Tradition	p. 85
Descartes	p. 91
Reading: The Principles of Philosophy	p. 91
Commentary	p. 99
Newton	p. 107
Reading: On the Gravity and Equilibrium of Fluids (De Gravitatione)	p. 107
Reading: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (The Principia)	p. 116
Commentary	p. 126
Leibniz and Clarke	p. 143
Reading: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence	p. 143
Commentary	p. 159
Berkeley and Mach	p. 169
Reading: Berkeley's De Motu	p. 169
Reading: Mach's The Science of Mechanics	p. 174
Commentary	p. 181
Space-Time	p. 189
Kant and Handedness	p. 197
Reading: Concerning the Ultimate Foundation of the Differentiation of Regions of Space	p. 197
Commentary	p. 203
Kant and Geometry	p. 213
Reading: The Critique of Pure Reason	p. 213
Commentary	p. 221
Poincare	p. 235
Reading: Space and Geometry	p. 235
Reading: Experiment and Geometry	p. 241
Commentary	p. 243
Einstein	p. 253
Reading: The Problem of Space, Ether, and the Field in Physics	p. 253
Commentary	p. 261
Index	p. 267
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