Poetic License
I have chosen to use poetic license throughout these documents.
- When I refer to, for example, "Aristotle's Spacetime", I do not
mean to claim that Aristotle himself developed
(or would have totally agreed with)
all the material attributed to him.
Rather, for pedagogical purposes, I have attributed
a whole mode of thought to one of its leading proponents,
in this case, Aristotle.
- I will speak in the modern language of spacetime.
For example, I will express Galileo's ideas in terms of how
he would describe it (if forced to do so) in the language of spacetime.
I have prepared a dictionary
to help us carry out the translation.
- I am following history by era. So, I often might summarize a
hundred years of hard work of people developing theories,
making experiments, and struggling with what this all means
...and just give you the result.
("...history is best left to the historians." - J.L. Synge)