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The present book is a conceptual history, namely it aims at tracing back the development of some fundamental ideas. Those addressed here are the ideas of Space and of Symmetry that lay the foundations of our present understanding of the Physical World and of its conceptualization in Geometry. Such a tale belongs to the history of Mathematics and Physics but also to the General History of Thought, namely of Philosophy.
Ce sont tous ces phénomènes de rapport entre les sciences ou entre les différents discours dans les divers secteurs scientifiques qui constituent ce que j’appelle épistémè d’une epoque.
Michel Foucault
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Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic Versus Analytic Cognition by R. E. Nisbett et al. published in Psychological Review 2001, Vol. 108, No. 2. 291–310.
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Fré, P.G. (2018). The Episteme. In: A Conceptual History of Space and Symmetry . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98023-2_1
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