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Introduction : the aim and structure of these volumes
1. Classical accounts of space and time
The birth of physics
Newton's first law and absolute space
Absolute time and the persistence of absolute space
The metaphysics of absolute space and time
2. Evidence for spatial and temporal structure
Newton's second law and the bucket experiment
Arithmetic, geometry, and coordinates
The symmetries of space and the Leibniz-Clarke debate
3. Eliminating unobservable structure
Absolute velocity and Galilean relativity
Galilean space-time
4. Special relativity
Special relativity and Minkowski space-time
The twins paradox
Minkowski straightedge, Minkowski compass
Constructing Lorentz coordinates
5. The physics of measurement
The clock hypothesis
Abstract boosts and physical boosts
The "constancy of the speed of light"
Deeper accounts of physical principles
6. General relativity
Curved space and curved space-time
Geometrizing away gravity
Black holes and the big bang
The hole argument
Suggested readings on general relativity
7. The direction and topology of time
The geometry of time
Time travel as a technical problem
The direction of time
Appendix : some problems in special relativistic physics.

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