The Twin Dimensions: Inventing Time & Space

Geza Szamosi

ISBN 10: 0070626464 / ISBN 13: 9780070626461

Published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1986

About this Item

1986 First Edition, First Printing, no marks or writing, not remainder, not price clipped, dj has light wear, covered in mylar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Twin Dimensions: Inventing Time & Space
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070626464
• ISBN 13: 9780070626461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This historical survey of scientific theories regarding time and space discusses the "discovery" of the existence of time and space, the degree of innate time/space knowledge, and cognitive organization of reality according to time/space theories

Reviews

This entertaining work sketches the history and development of human notions of space and time within the contexts of various disciplines, including astronomy, physics, art, music, evolutionary biology, and sociology. The author demonstrates how space and time were "invented" in the consciousness of early life-forms and gradually evolved into the conceptions prevalent in contemporary civilization. It is novel to consider how life in adapting to its many environments has discovered properties of space/time. Indeed, the author contends that biological evolution has equipped living beings with a knowledge or innate mastery of space and time which is superior in certain ways to anything that can be learned from physics. Recommended for popular and general science collections. Robert Paustian, Wilkes Coll. Lib., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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