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Space: from Euclid to Einstein

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Space: from Euclid to Einstein
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Publisher: Learning Development Institute
Number of pages: 66

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This book goes back to the work of the philosophers and astronomers of two thousand years ago; and it extends to that of Einstein, whose work laid the foundations for our present-day ideas about the nature of space itself.

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