Tim Maudlin, “Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time” (Princeton UP, 2012)
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The Material History of Science and Medicine
The odometer is a metaphor for the material world of instrumentation, of objects, of materials and bodies. In chapter one on classical accounts of space and time, you describe the pencil, the straight edge, and the compass as ways to kind of understand the material foundation - three kinds of geometrical structure. "I think that there's this very tactile sense that there's a physical world we live in," he says.
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