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[reissue in 1952 of the English translation based on the original German monograph "Raum Zeit Materie" (4th ed., 1922]SPACE-TIME-MATTERINTRODUCTIONSPACE and time are commonly regarded as the forms of existence of the real world, matter as its substance. A definite portion of matter occupies a definite part of space at a definite moment of timo. It is in the composite idea of motion that these three fundamental conceptions enter into intimate relationship. Descartes defined the objective of the exact sciences as consisting in the description of all happening in terms of these three fundamental conceptions, thus referring them to motion. Since the human mind first wakened from slumber, and was allowed to give itself free rein, it has never ceased to feel the profoundly mysterious nature of time-consciousness, of the progression of the world in time,-of Becoming. It is one of those ultimate metaphysical problems which philosophy has striven to elucidate and unravel at every stage of its history. The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew,Table of ContentsCONTENTS; PAOI; Introduction j; CHAPTER I; Euclidean Space Its Mathem

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Author
Hermann Weyl
Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
Published
1952
Language
EN
ISBN
9780486602677
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Technology, Physics

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