“Die Lehre des Raumes [bei Leibniz] ergibt sich aus dem Zusammentreffen von drei Momenten: das wissenschaftliche, das logische, das metaphysische, und, was den physischen Faktor betrifft, aus Erwägungen, die in Gegensatz sowohl zur Physik Descartes wie zur Physik Newtons stehen.” (p. 276) #Gueroult #Leibniz #Raum #Descartes #Newton
“Time is paradoxical. Here it flows evenly. There it is turbulent, with countercurrents, eddies, and whirlpools. Here it is gathered. There it unfurls over the very long term. “Weather” and “time” are the same word in many languages: le temps in French; o kairos in Greek (Serres with Latour 1995, 60).” (p. 152) #Olsen #Shanks #Webmoor #Witmore #time #weather #temps
“[W]e presented a System of the World in which an active principle, the Xon, generates Space and Time by ‚occurring‘ in a substrate made up of i-points bearing no geometric relations of distance or proximity with each other—in brief, which do not constitute a continuum.” (p. 1427) #Auffray #Xon #space #time #continuum
“Percolation theory is concerned primarily with the existence of such ‚open paths‘.” (p. 1) #Grimmett #percolation
“Daraus ergibt sich, daß er [i.e. Leibniz] jeden Begriff eines absoluten Raumes zurückweist, sei nun Ietzterer erfüllte Realitat, wie derjenige Descartes, oder leerer Rahrnen, wie derjenige Newtons.” (p. 276) #Gueroult #Raum #Leibniz #Descartes #Newton