Development of the Concept of Space up to Newton

The concept of space, ubiquitous among all humans from birth, has changed profoundly in the course history Western civilization, only one to be considered here. An important contribution this change was theoretical elaborations philosophers nature and mathematicians, started Ancient Greece. Here, process is up Newton, when space for physicists, who then replaced traditional nature, took on a connotation that remained substantially undisputed two centuries—that absolute space.