Philosophy and Geometry: Theoretical and Historical Issues

Kluwer Academic Publisher (2001)
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The total irrelevance of absolute space to scientific observation and experiment led him early to a most radical conclusion: experience cannot teach us anything about the true structure of space; consequently, the choice of a geometry for the ...

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Lorenzo Magnani
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