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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"absolute space"”.
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A Philosophical Reappraisal of Henry More’s Theory of Divine Space
… reappraisal of Henry More’s theory of divine space, which—through Newton—became part of the metaphysical foundations of the new physics. Of course, this space was soon secularized into an impersonal ether, then seemingly relativized by Einstein. However, some recent philosophers—such as …
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Neural prosthetics for paralysis : algorithms and low-power analog architectures for decoding neural signals
… of thalami neurons encoding head orientation in absolute space. The success of the decoder in that context motivates the development of a model of generalized place cells to explain how networks of neurons adapt the configurations of their receptive fields in response to new stimuli, learn to …
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Elisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities
… in abstract terms through conceptualising space in particular ways. I argue that how space is conceptualised forms a site of critical intervention. I counter the notion of absolute space with a commitment to mobile positioning. To do this, I look at how landscape conventions at Table Bay …
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Rembrandt’s Spaces
… in scholarship devoted to the study of pictorial spaces in seventeenth-century Netherlands. While much light has been shed on the spaces of such artists as Nicholaes Maes and Pieter de Hooch, those of Rembrandt have not been the objects of a scholarly gaze. Sparsely illuminated with few features …
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Reframing Strategic Inertia: The Politics of Innovation and the Case of GM Biotechnology
… relations within the synchronization of time and space in social organisations, typically as part of the design and implementation of strategy, in context of organisational definitions of innovation and contestations of 'the new'. With a conceptual archaeology, the thesis contends that strategy …
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By way of the highway: a collection of towers
… its surrounding environment as a formal model. Space is defined either by the existing condition of the environment or by the will of man existing within his surroundings. Man, no longer alien or subservient, now does not need a mediator but instead a throne on which to share in the government …