Tags: mechanics, space-time
Categories: Comparisons
An example of analogy in a scientist's writings:
"Thus absolute space, absolute time, geometry itself, are not conditions which impose themselves on mechanics; all these things are no more antecedent to mechanics than the French language is logically antecedent to the verities one expresses in French."
Henri Poincaré
Poincaré, H. (2015). Science and Hypothesis (G. B. Halstead, Trans.). In The Foundations of Science. Cambridge University Press. (First published 1902)
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