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.