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

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2004.09.002zbMath1222.01011OpenAlexW2082999233MaRDI QIDQ640247

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

stabilitygravityorbitsdimensionspaceKant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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