Understanding space-time: The philosophical development of physics from Newton to Einstein

Understanding Space-Time: The Philosophical Development of Physics from Newton to Einstein

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-173

  Disalle, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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