Space
The extension in which bodies are located and move.
Works to read
- On the Motion and Gait of Animals by Aristotle, c. 350-322 BC · Great Books
- Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster by Ronald Reagan, 1986
- Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes, 1641 (English 1680) · Great Books
- Principia by Isaac Newton, 1687 · Great Books
- Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, c. 1100
- A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America by John Adams, 1787-1788
- The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White, 1789
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892 (stories 1891-92)
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1927 (stories 1921-27)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932
- Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant, 1935
Passages
From the texts
Surely what is in a special place is in place, and what is in place is in a special place.
— Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics
Since every particle of space is always, and every indivisible moment of duration is everywhere, certainly the Maker and Lord of things cannot be never and nowhere.
— Isaac Newton, Principia
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