Space and time

London, Melbourne, New York: Macmillan; St. Martin's P., 1968. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine that is toned with age. Boards are lightly rubbed, especially along edges. Library blindstamp on title page. Library stamps on copyright page. Binding is sound and square. Periodic, neat underlining in text. Pastedowns are scarred where bookplate/pocket removed. 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: 'This book has two aims. The first and major aim is to describe the properties which Space and Time must have as a matter of logical necessity and to analyse the meaning of various claims about Space and Time and claims using very general spatial and temporal terms. It thus considers such questions as whether Space must of logical necessity have three dimensions, and what it means to say that one object is at a certain distance from another object, or that two events were simultaneous. The second and subsidiary aim is to describe, where a definite conclusion can be reached, the most general contingent properties of the Space and Time with which we are familiar; or, where there is still scientific dispute, to set forward the rival scientific theories on the subject. The book is however primarily a philosophical and not a scientific work. It charts the logically possible properties which Space and Time could have, and only secondarily describes which of these properties they do have. It marks out the logically necessary limits to scienific discoveries about Space and Time.' --from the Introduction. Space and time