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David Marshall Miller
"The novel understanding of the physical world that characterized the scientific revolution depended on a fundamental shift in the way its protagonists understood and described space. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, spatial phenomena were described in relation to a presupposed central point; by its end, space had become a centerless void in which phenomena could only be described by reference to arbitrary orientations"--
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Pages | 252 |
| Search language | english |
| ISBN_13 | 978-1-322-17690-1 primary |
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