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Fraassen, Bas C. van
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Print publication date: 1989 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824860-6 |
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doi:10.1093/0198248601.003.0011
Abstract: The concepts analysed and developed in the previous chapter are applied to discussions of the development of modern mechanics, including symmetries of space and time, relativity, conservation laws, invariance and covariance, and the relation to older ideas of laws of nature.
Keywords: conservation law, covariance, invariance, mechanics, relativity, space, symmetries of space, time, 
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Symmetries Guiding Modern Science
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