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Space: A History (OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS) by Andrew Janiak (ed.) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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Recurrent questions about space have dogged philosophers since ancient times. Can an ordinary person draw from his or her perceptions to say what space is? Or is it rather a technical concept that is only within the grasp of experts? Can geometry characterize the world in which we live? What is God's relation to space? In Ancient Greece, Euclid set out to define space by devising a codified set of axioms and associated theorems that were then passed down for centuries, thought by many philosophe
Who reads Space: A History (OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Andrew Janiak (ed.)
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199914128
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Physics, Science, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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