The Chinese Philosophical Thinking of Space

Like time, space is an abstract term for a complex set of ideas. Different cultures differ in how they divide up their world, assign values to its parts, and measure them. In the biblical viewpoint, Genesis describes the creation of the world out of nothingness, God dwells in heaven, and part of his creation humankind dwells on earth. Alternatively, cosmological speculation is at the beginning of Greek philosophy, in Ptolemy's cosmos, the four agents of earth, fire, air, and water are subordinated to cardinal points of planetary gods, and the colors of the agents are attached to the gods. [Read more] ...