Belkind, Ori,

Physical systems : conceptual pathways between flat space-time and matter / by Ori Belkind - 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations - Boston studies in the philosophy of science, volume 264 0068-0346 ; . - Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; volume 264 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.

Physical systems and physical thought -- Interpretations of spacetime and the principle of relativity -- Primitive motion relationalism -- The metaphysics of time -- The history of Newtonian mass -- Physical systems and mass -- Structural assumptions, Newton's scientific method, and the universal law of gravitation -- The special theory of relativity.

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