Education is the ability to perceive hidden connections between phenomena.[1] Václav Havel Note [1] in Fritjof Capra, The Hidden Connections (London: Flamingo, 2003), viii. Image Credits Featured Image by Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto: ‘Archi-texture’, Ydañez Museum, Puente de Genave, ES (in collaboration with architect Sandro Panarese), CC BY-NC-SA
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…
1. Young man at his window: places everywhere This is just common sense: look out the window of your home or office. What do you see? You only see places. A bench, a tree, a park where people converse and children play, a square, a street, a building, a mural on a building’s facade, a bridge, the sun, the sky,…