Menyhért Palágyi - a predecessor of Larson?
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:02 pm
Melchior (Menyhert) Palagyi was an Hungarian philosopher and mathematician from Jewish descent who formulated his own theory of space and time before Einstein and he is known for his criticism of the special relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menyh%C3%A9rt_Pal%C3%A1gyi). I have searched for his book "New Theory of Space and Time: The Basic Notions of a Metageometry" for years and I finally found it here: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Neue%2520 ... id=1714862
This can be of use for who can read German. (Damn! I've studied this language in the high school, but now I don't remember much of it... If somebody can translate more of the book, it would be great!).
Anyway, here are two excerpts from the forword:
"My theory of space and time has now the meaning that it establishes a principle of reciprocity between space and time, as its special case is considered the whole teaching of reciprocity of modern geometry."
"If I am not mistaken, the dual unit doctrine of space and time leads to a laws of reciprocity in physics and chemistry."
It seems he has anticipated some of the ideas of Larson almost half a century earlier!
This can be of use for who can read German. (Damn! I've studied this language in the high school, but now I don't remember much of it... If somebody can translate more of the book, it would be great!).
Anyway, here are two excerpts from the forword:
"My theory of space and time has now the meaning that it establishes a principle of reciprocity between space and time, as its special case is considered the whole teaching of reciprocity of modern geometry."
"If I am not mistaken, the dual unit doctrine of space and time leads to a laws of reciprocity in physics and chemistry."
It seems he has anticipated some of the ideas of Larson almost half a century earlier!
