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Tim Maudlin, “Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time” (Princeton UP, 2012)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Origins of the Genesis Book

The way you were taught as a graduate student helped shape your approach to the project. John Erman was one of the people who introduced me to the subject and he was kind enough to spend a lot of time on it. And probably more important than that, quite honestly, is just because we were reading Newton and Galileo. We were reading works of science that were produced when still everyone was thinking very geometrically  as opposed to the tools of algebra.

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