Answers in search of a question: `proofs' of the tri-dimensionality of space

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2004.09.002MaRDI QIDQ640247zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig Callender

Publication date 17 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2004.09.002

zbMATH Keywords

stabilitygravitydimensionorbitsspaceKant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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