Euclid's Heritage: Is Space Three-Dimensional? /

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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Janich, Peter
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1992.
Series:	University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ; 52.
Subjects:	Philosophy (General) Genetic epistemology. Science > Philosophy. Geometry. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book