Longitude and Simultaneity in Philosophy, Physics, and Empires.
The finding of longitude on the oceans was considered the greatest scientific challenge between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. This essay sketches its impact on the establishment of the British Empire, Victorian physics, and the early philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Against the backdrop of...
| Publicado en: | Configurations Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 145 - 164 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Spring2015
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