It is clear that [this void space], which is obviously nothing, cannot have an actual existence. JOHANNES KEPLER, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy 1. Reality, the Circle of Reality, the Environment, and Spatial Concepts In a previous article, New Realism for Architects, I introduced the new realist hypothesis, which recognizes that both material (mind-independent) and immaterial (mind-dependent) aspects of reality are…
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…