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On Space and Time.
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"MINKOWSKI, H. (HERMANN). - THE UNIFICATION OF SPACE AND TIME (PMM 401).
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(1909)
Raum und Zeit. (Space and Time). Vortrag von der 80. Naturforscherversammlung zu Köln.
Leipzig, S. Hirzel, (1909). 4to. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in fine later hmorocco. (Bound by Anker Kyster Eftf. 1968). Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering on frontcover. Offprint (Sonderabdruck) from ""Physikalische Zeitschrift"", 10. Jahrgang. No. 3. Seite 104-111, here paginated as offprint pp. 1-8 and with textfigs. Clean and fine.
First edition - in the scarce offprint-issue - of this milestone paper where Minkowski was the first to conceive that the relativity principle formulated by Lorentz and Einstein led to the abandonment of the concept of space and time as separate entities and to their replacement by a fourdimensional ""space-time"", THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM. In the opening passage Minkowski declared: ""Henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fadeaway in the shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.""The work was simultaneously published in ""Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung"". Leipzig 1909, in ""Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte"". Leipzig, 1909 (a shorter version) and as here.The paper was read 20th of September 1908 at a Conference in Cologne only a few months before his death. Here ""he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the Relativity Theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional Space-time continuum.... Minkowski's space-time hypothesis was in effect a restatement of Einstein's basic principle in a form that greatly enchanced its plausability and also introduced importent new developments. Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that the separation of space and time is a false conception"" thet time is itself a dimension, comparable to lenght, breadth and height: and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions. This strongly reinforced Einstein's objections to absolute concepts and supported his view of the relativity of events in nature."" (PMM No. 401).
Versuch einer objectiven Begründung der Lehre von den drei Dimensionen des Raumes. (Aus dem Abhandlungen der k. böhm. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (V Folge, Bd. 3).) - [BOLZANO'S FIRST WORK ON SPACE AND TIME]
Prag [Prague], 1843. 4to. Uncut in the original printed light pink wrappers, with a dicreet new black cloth back-strip. A bit of brownspotting and minor chipping to edges pf wrappers, but overall a very nice copy of this fairly fragile publication. 15, (1) pp.
The very rare first edition, off-print (separately paginated), of this important treatise on space and time, which constitutes an important part of Bolzano's philosophical-logical theory. The present paper constitutes the first public formulation of these controversial ideas on time and space, with which Bolzano sets out to establish a foundation of mathematics which is non-empirical. By uniting mathematics and philosophy and applying both to the question of space and time, Bolzano here brings both sciences to a higher level of completeness, acknowledging that his theories depart from the those of Hegel, Kant, Schelling, etc. As always, Bolzano grabs the essence of the question and the terms that he is treating and retraces the concepts that must be used, establishing their original inner connection. In the present paper, the question of space, time, and thought are treated in order to establish the precise and full nature of space, a theme which Bolzano had apparently been working on for many years but previously only discussed with a very small number of intimate acquaintances, and now publishes on for the first time. The concept of space plays an important rôle in Bolzano's ontology and is closely linked to his mathematical and philosophical logic, in which the ""space-position"" plays a part in the demarcation of that which is purely mathematical and logical. Furthermore, for Bolzano, truth is constituted by true propositions (which state things as they are), and his canonical form of all propositions entails that ""[a] proposition is true iff the object has the property (the attribute) which belongs to the subject of the proposition. Moreover, empirical propositions must contain determinations of space and time. Without these determinations, the sentence ""It is snowing"" has no truth value, it is just a propositional form which does not correspond to a complete proposition"" ""in order to be true, [such propositions] require the addition of such specifications as to time (and often place as well), 'It is snowing today, in this place'"" (SEP).
Raum und Zeit. (Space and Time) - [THE FOURTH DIMENSION. (PMM 401)]
Leipzig, F.C.W. Vogel, 1909. Lex8vo. Contemp. Hcloth. Gilt spine. Edges slightly rubbed. Clean and fine. in ""Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. 80. Vesammlung zu Cöln 20.- 26. September 1908. Herausgegeben...Albert Wangerin. Zweiter Theil. 1. Hälfte. Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilungen"". pp. 4-9. The whole volume offered with part I-II: (4),245,X,(2),598,124,(2) pp.
First appearance of this milestone paper in the development of the theory of Special relativity. The paper offered is the first edition, first printing of the text from Minkowski's famous address held at the 80th meeting of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, in Köln the 21st September 1908. There exists three other printings of this address from the same year:1. Physikalische Zeitschrift, volume 10, number 3 (1. February, 1909.), pp.104-111" 2. Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, volume 18, number 2 (issued monthly - so February), pp.75-88"3. (Seperate edition by Teubner).""The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strenght. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a inf of union of the two will preserve an independent reality"" He ended as follows: 'the validitywothout exception of the world postulate (i.e., relativity postulates), I like to think, is the thrue nucleus of an electromagnetic image of the world, which, discovered by Lorentz, and further developed by Einstein, now lies open in the full light of the day'""(Pais in ""Subtle is the Lord"", p. 152).Here (in the paper offered) ""he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the Relativity Theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional Space-time continuum....Minkowski's space-time hypothesis was in effect a restatement of Einstein's basic principle in a form that greatly enchanced its plausability and also introduced importent new developments. Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that the separation of space and time is a false conception"" thet time is itself a dimension, comparable to lenght, breadth and height: and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions. This strongly reinforced Einstein's objections to absolute concepts and supported his view of the relativity of events in nature."" (PMM No. 401, only listing the print from ""Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. Leipzig 1909."").
Reflexions sur L'Espace et le Temps. (Reflections on space and time).
(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1750). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", 1748, tome IV, Titlepage to the section. a. pp. 324-333.
First appearance of this importent paper in which Euler defends Newton's conceptions of space and time against the thesis that space and time are ideal, and motions relative. He outlays his views on the relation between Metaphysics and Mechanics. The truths of mechanics are ""so indubitably constant"" that they must be founded in the natures of bodies. Metaphysics is the study of the nature of bodies, therefore the laws of Mechanics constrain Metaphysical theories. In fact, any Metaphysical idea or conclusion corresponding to a Mechanical one must agree in all its implications with Mechanics. This applies in particular to space and time. Real, absolute, space and time are assumed by the laws of Mechanics. Therefore, Metaphysical arguments for the unreality of space and time must be unfounded and ""hide some parlogism"".
Landsberg (P.T.), ed. - G.N. Lewis - E. Schrödinger - P. Morrison - F. Hoyle - P.A.M. Dirac - A. Aharony - Y. Ne'eman - A.J. Leggett - R. Penrose - P.C.W. Davies - E.H. Gombrich - W.J. Ong
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(1985)
The Enigma of Time Compiled and Introduced by P.T. Landsberg , (1. Irreversibility : The symmetry of time in physics - Irreversibility - Time's arrow and external perturbations -A matter of time - 2. Cosmology and electrodynamics : The asymmetry of time - New ideas of space and time - Thermodynamics, cosmology and the physical constants - 3. Quantum mechanics including Black holes : Time reversal symmetry violation and the H-theorem - Time reversal asymmetry as the fundamental level and its reflection on the problem of the arrow of time - The arrow of time and quantum mechanics - Singularities and time-asymmetry - Black holes thermodynamics and time asymmetry - 4. Time in the arts : Moment and movement in art - Evolution, myth and poetic vision)
Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol and Boston Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1985 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon paperback, editor's black printed wrappers, illustrated by an astrophysical photography, title in yellow grand In-8 1 vol. - 260 pages
many black and white illustrations Reprinted edition, 1985 (1st was 1982) Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of Authors, Preface and Acknowledgments, xii, Text, 248 pages - Introduction - Minor comments on some of the reprinted papers - 1. Irreversibility : G.N. Lewis : The symmetry of time in physics - E. Schrödinger : Irreversibility - P. Morrison : Time's arrow and external perturbations - P.T. Landsberg : A matter of time - 2. Cosmology and electrodynamics : F. Hoyle : The asymmetry of time - P.A.M. Dirac : New ideas of space and time - P.T. Landsberg : Thermodynamics, cosmology and the physical constants - 3. Quantum mechanics including Black holes : A. Aharony : Time reversal symmetry violation and the H-theorem - Y. Ne'eman : Time reversal asymmetry as the fundamental level and its reflection on the problem of the arrow of time - A.J. Leggett : The arrow of time and quantum mechanics - R. Penrose : Singularities and time-asymmetry - P.C.W. Davies : Black holes thermodynamics and time asymmetry - 4. Time in the arts : E.H. Gombrich : Moment and movement in art - W.J. Ong : Evolution, myth and poetic vision - Some books on time - Glossary and index near fine copy, no markings
