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…
I briefly come back to the renewed sense of place I’ve spoken about in the previous article – What Is Place? What Is Space? – where I’ve said that ‘place is any real entity emerging from inorganic, organic, social and symbolic – or intellectual – processes’ (definition I-R. a); more extendedly – and including a basic definition of reality on…
Space and Place: Why They Matter This website explores the meaning of two fundamental concepts: space and place.They are not merely technical terms for physicists, philosophers, social scientists, or architects. They are cross-cutting concepts that shape how we understand the world—from physics to philosophy, from the biological to the social sciences, from culture to everyday life. Yet their meaning is…