From Euclid to Eddington: A Study of Conceptions of the External World by Sir Edmund Whittaker

From Euclid to Eddington: A Study of Conceptions of the External World by Sir Edmund Whittaker
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Softcover. Condition Good. 1958. Dover.

This book is a profound philosophical study of the changing conceptions of the external world forced upon us by the revolutionary discoveries in physics and mathematics in recent times. It traces the development of theories in natural philosophy from the rediscovery of Euclid by Western scholars to the present time.