REICHENBACH, HANS.

Axiomatik der relativistischen Raum-Zeit-Lehre.

Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1924. Orig. clothbacked boards. Stamps to foot of titlepage. X,161,(1) pp., textdiagrams. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on front free endpaper. Clean and fine.

First printing of Reichenbach famous work on the philosophy of space and time with point of reference in Einstein's theory of relativity.
"Reichenbach, who perhaps contributed the most to the recent development of the casual theory of time, approached his axiomatic research from the point of view of epistemology, that is, the theory of physical knowledge. The Axiomatik der relativistischen Raum-Zeit-Lehre, HIS GREAT ATTEMPT AT A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF RELATIVITY, A BOOK WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF RELATIVITY, is almost entirely dominated by the idea of causal action of which space and time are only expressions of structural features". (Mehlberg. Essay on the causal theory of time, P. 105)

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