The previous article — Place Space and the Unicorn — could be seen as a prologue to this one, as it lays out the premises and reasons that led me to analyze Vitruvius’s ancient text De Architectura, written by the Roman architect in the first century B.C., in order to understand how the concept of space was interpreted across the…
This article is especially focused on the etymology and semantics of the words space, and place; it is the prosecution of the previous article – What Is Place? What Is Space? – so that everybody can have a first, basic, idea of the linguistic histories of those two words and the associated meanings. There are a few points I would like to…