The shape of space / (Record no. 522261)
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| control field | UkCbUP |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780511621130 (ebook) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521450140 (hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521456456 (paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BD632 |
| Item number | .N45 1994 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 114 |
| Edition number | 20 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nerlich, Graham, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1929- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The shape of space / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Graham Nerlich. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Second edition. |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R) | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 1994. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
| 336 ## - Content Type (R) | |
| Content type term (R) | text |
| Content type code (R) | txt |
| Source (NR) | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - Media Type (R) | |
| Media type term (R) | computer |
| Media type code (R) | c |
| Source (NR) | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) | |
| Carrier type term (R) | online resource |
| Carrier type code (R) | cr |
| Source (NR) | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Title | Space and spatial relations -- |
| -- | Pure theories of reduction: Leibniz and Kant -- |
| -- | Impure theories of reduction: outlines -- |
| -- | Mediated spatial relations -- |
| -- | Surrogates for mediation -- |
| -- | Representational relationism -- |
| -- | On understanding -- |
| -- | Leibniz and the detachment argument -- |
| -- | Seeing places and travelling paths -- |
| -- | Non-Euclidean holes -- |
| -- | The concrete and the causal -- |
| -- | Hands, knees and absolute space -- |
| -- | Counterparts and enantiomorphs -- |
| -- | Kant's pre-critical argument -- |
| -- | Hands and bodies: relations among objects -- |
| -- | Hands and parts of space -- |
| -- | Knees and space: enantiomorphism and topology -- |
| -- | A deeper premise: objects are spatial -- |
| -- | Different actions of the creative cause -- |
| -- | Unmediated handedness -- |
| -- | Other responses -- |
| -- | Euclidean and other shapes -- |
| -- | Space and shape -- |
| -- | Non-Euclidean geometry and the problem of parallels -- |
| -- | Curves and surfaces -- |
| -- | Intrinsic curvatures and intrinsic geometry -- |
| -- | Bending, stretching and intrinsic shape -- |
| -- | Some curved two-spaces -- |
| -- | Perspective and projective geometry -- |
| -- | Transformations and invariants -- |
| -- | Subgeometries of perspective geometry -- |
| -- | Geometrical structures in space and spacetime -- |
| -- | The manifold, coordinates, smoothness, curves -- |
| -- | Vectors, 1-forms and tensors -- |
| -- | Projective and affine structures -- |
| -- | An analytical picture of affine structure -- |
| -- | Metrical structure -- |
| -- | Shapes and the imagination -- |
| -- | Kant's idea: things look Euclidean -- |
| -- | Two Kantian arguments: the visual challenge -- |
| -- | Non-Euclidean perspective: the geometry of vision -- |
| -- | Reid's non-Euclidean geometry of visibles. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This is a revised and updated edition of Graham Nerlich's classic book The Shape of Space. It develops a metaphysical account of space which treats it as a real and concrete entity. In particular, it shows that the shape of space plays a key explanatory role in space and spacetime theories. Arguing that geometrical explanation is very like causal explanation, Professor Nerlich prepares the ground for philosophical argument, and, using a number of novel examples, investigates how different spaces would affect perception differently. This leads naturally to conventionalism as a non-realist metaphysics of space, an account which Professor Nerlich criticises, rejecting its Kantian and positivistic roots along with Reichenbach's famous claim that even the topology of space is conventional. He concludes that there is, in fact, no problem of underdetermination for this aspect of spacetime theories, and offers an extensive discussion of the relativity of motion. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Space and time. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Relation (Philosophy) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | Philosophy. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521450140 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621130">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621130</a> |
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