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People have asked questions about space and have attempted answers to some of these questions since the dawn of civilization. In fact, some of our current ideas about space have their origin in the thinking of the ancients.
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J. Needham, Science and Civilization in China. vol. 3, London: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
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Goswami, A. (2000). The Relativity of Space and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation. In: The Physicists’ View of Nature, Part 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1227-1_16
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