THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPTS OF SPACE AND TIME

Michael Bradie and Comer Duncan

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Copyright 1982, 1995, 1997 Michael Bradie and Comer Duncan


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Birth of Rational Cosmology

Chapter 3: Zeno's Paradoxes

Chapter 4: Plato's Universe

Chapter 5: Aristotle on Space, Time and Motion

Chapter 6: Transition From Aristotle to Newton

Chapter 7: The Newtonian World

Chapter 8: Newton's Critics

Chapter 9: The Space-Time Perspective

Chapter10: The Importance of Light

Chapter 11: The Postulates and Evidence for the Special Theory

Chapter 12: Applications of the Special Theory

Chapter 13: Minkowski Spacetime

Chapter 14: Including Gravity: The Move to the General Theory

Chapter 15: Einstein's Geometric Theory of Gravity


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