TY - BOOK AU - Belkind,Ori TI - Physical systems: conceptual pathways between flat space-time and matter T2 - Boston studies in the philosophy of science, SN - 9400723733 (ebook) AV - QC6 PY - 2012/// CY - Dordrecht, New York PB - Springer KW - Physics KW - Philosophy KW - Electronic books (Form) N1 - 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 ER -