Sentence examples for accounts of space from inspiring English sources

And his theory of space and time, revolutionary though it may have been in other respects, was in this respect typical of philosophical accounts of space and time.

O'Neill's popular science book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1977) combined fictional accounts of space settlers with an explanation of his plan to build space colonies.

Euclid's Elements had claimed the excellence of being a true account of space.

He employed the same technique in other books, including Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968) and Of a Fire on the Moon (1970), an account of space travel in which he styled himself Aquarius.

He employed the same technique in other books (by now Mailer might publish two a year), including Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968) and Of a Fire on the Moon (1970), an account of space travel in which he styled himself Aquarius.

He presented his theory as a relational account of space; if there were no objects, there would be no space.

An excellent account of space structural innovations may be found in a comprehensive bibliography by Schmidth (2000b).

Leibniz's positive account of space and time might be thought of as resting on two primary pillars and being filled out by a number of ancillary theses.

For a brief period,  Kant saw in this reason to prefer a substantivalist account of space over a relational one, the difference between left and right hands lying in their relation to absolute space.

The second pillar of Leibniz's positive account of space and time is rooted in his view that — even understood as systems of relations — space and time as "beings of reason" are in a sense at least two steps removed from the monads of his mature metaphysics.

Also relevant is Kant's Concerning the Ultimate Foundation of the Distinction of the Directions in Space (1768) which modifies his earlier account of space insofar as he seems to hold that certain spatial properties — viz., chirality, or handedness — may not be able to be explained entirely in terms of direct relations between material substances.