Figuring Space: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics [Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999] 9048152879, 9789048152872

Table of contents :

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
The Enchantment of the Virtual....Pages 17-37
The Screen, the Spectrum and the Pendulum....Pages 38-72
The Force of Ambiguity: Dialectical Balances....Pages 73-100
Grassmann’s Capture of the Extension....Pages 101-149
Electrogeometric Space....Pages 150-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-199

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