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The Continuous and the Discrete: Ancient Physical Theories from a Contemporary Perspective

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 | #4852713 in Books |  Michael J White |  1992-06-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.75 x1.11 x5.69l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent book. It explains highly technical material very clearly|By george couvalis|An excellent book. It explains highly technical material very clearly. I was a little disappointed that White tended to treat modern treatments of continuity etc as if they must be correct. More could have been said in defence of ancient approaches.

This book presents a detailed analysis of three ancient models of spatial magnitude, time, and local motion. The Aristotelian model is presented as an application of the ancient, geometrically orthodox conception of extension to the physical world. The other two models, which represent departures from mathematical orthodoxy, are a "quantum" model of spatial magnitude, and a Stoic model, according to which limit entities such as points, edges, and surfaces do not exist ...

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