This article is the continuation of the previous one – Space and Place: A Scientific History – Part One -, an inquiry into the concepts of space and place analysed through the scientific perspective of Julian Barbour’s book The Discovery of Dynamics. Now, the scope is to cover the temporal gap from the moment where Barbour left his work (the…
With the present work, I begin the first of two articles that approach the questions of space and place from a scientific perspective, through the presentation of historically grounded texts by three physicists. The first is The Discovery of Dynamics: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the Discovery and the Structure of Dynamical Theories (2001), by the…