The Concepts of Space and Time: Their Structure and Their Development

Front Matter....Pages I-LVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Invention of Space....Pages 3-16
Matter and the Void According to Leucippus....Pages 17-19
Plato’s Theory of Space and the Geometrical Composition of the Elements....Pages 21-25
Space and the Void According to Aristotle....Pages 27-29
The Stoic Idea of Space....Pages 31-32
The Continuity and Infinity of Space According to Epicurus and Lucretius....Pages 33-37
Place and the Void According to John Philopon....Pages 39-40
Absolute Frame of Reference According to St. Thomas....Pages 41-42
The Empyrean as the Place of The Universe....Pages 43-45
The Infinite Space in the Fourteenth Century....Pages 47-50
The Finite World of Copernicus....Pages 51-55
Establishment and Extension of the New World Scheme: Giordano Bruno....Pages 57-63
Gradual Emancipation from Aristotle: From Crescas To Gilbert....Pages 65-72
View of Space as Plenum....Pages 73-84
On the Difference Between Extension and Matter....Pages 85-87
The Relativity of Magnitude....Pages 89-89
The Reality of Infinite Void According to Aristotle....Pages 91-95
On Absolute Space and Absolute Motion....Pages 97-105
On Infinite Space and its Difference from Matter....Pages 107-112
Argument for the Reality of Absolute Space....Pages 113-119
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On Absolute Space....Pages 121-123
On the Necessity of the Absolute Frame of Reference....Pages 125-127
Early Defense of Newton’s Absolute Space....Pages 129-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
The Elimination of Time by Parmenides....Pages 137-142
The Relational Theory of Time in Ancient Antonism....Pages 143-145
On Time, Motion and Change....Pages 147-157
The Stoic Views of Time....Pages 159-166
The Stoic Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence....Pages 167-171
Criticism of the Relational Theories of Time....Pages 173-178
Views on Time....Pages 179-183
The Problem of the Absolute Clock....Pages 185-186
Independence of Time from Motion....Pages 187-188
Hesitations between Absolute and Relational Theory of Time....Pages 189-193
Reality of Absolute Time....Pages 195-201
Absolute Time....Pages 203-208
On Time....Pages 209-210
On Succession and Duration....Pages 211-224
On the Relativity of Temporal Intervals....Pages 225-226
On the Necessary Attributes of Time and Space....Pages 227-230
Absolute Time and the Order of Nature....Pages 231-232
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
On the Definition of the Equality of Successive Intervals of Time....Pages 233-234
On Zeno’s Paradoxes....Pages 235-243
On Zeno’s Parodoxes....Pages 245-250
On Change, Time and Motion....Pages 251-254
The Elimination of Time in Classical Science....Pages 255-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Criticism of Newton....Pages 267-271
Discussion on the Nature of Space and Time....Pages 273-288
Criticism of Newton’s Alleged Proof of Absolute Motion....Pages 289-290
On the Bending of Space....Pages 291-294
On the Space-Theory of Matter....Pages 295-296
Geometrical Spaces....Pages 297-303
Criticism of Newton, Euler, Kant and Neumann....Pages 305-307
Criticism of Newton’s Concept of Absolute Space....Pages 309-315
The Measure of Time....Pages 317-327
The Inadequacy of Classical Models of Aether....Pages 329-337
The Union of Space and Time....Pages 339-351
On Various Interpretations of the Relativistic Time....Pages 353-362
Comment on Meyerson’s ‘La Déduction Relativiste’....Pages 363-367
The Conical Order of Time-Space....Pages 369-386
Is the Future Already Here?....Pages 387-395
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
The Principle of Equivalence....Pages 397-407
Geometry as a Branch of Physics....Pages 409-424
The Relativistic Explanation of Gravitation....Pages 425-430
Geometrical Physics....Pages 431-432
Discussion with Becquerel of the Paradox of the Twins....Pages 433-439
Comment on the Paradox of the Twins....Pages 441-446
Comment on the Clock Paradox....Pages 447-449
Comment on the Paradox of the Twins....Pages 451-453
Static Interpretation of Space-Time....Pages 455-461
The Arrow of Time, Entropy and the Expansion of the Universe....Pages 463-470
The Exclusion of Becoming from the Physical World....Pages 471-500
The Inclusion of Becoming in the Physical World....Pages 501-524
‘Becoming’ and the Nature of Time....Pages 525-532
Time: Continuous or Discrete....Pages 533-534
The Inapplicability of the Concept of Instant on the Quantum Level....Pages 535-537
Spatio-Temporal Continuity, Quantum Theory and Music....Pages 539-546
Inadequacy of Laplacean Determinism and Irreversibility of Time....Pages 547-559
The Open World....Pages 561-566
Back Matter....Pages 567-576