UID:
kobvindex_INT0004621
Format:
xii, 490 pages
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illustrations
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20.5 x 13 cm
Edition:
Reprint
ISBN:
9780393004083
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0393004082
Series Statement:
Norton library ; N408
Uniform Title:
La répresentation de l'espace chez l'enfant
Content:
"The study of the concept of space, or rather, of the innumerable ideas involved in the concept of space, is for many reasons an indispensable part of child psychology. To begin with, it is clear that if the development of various aspects of child thought can tell us anything about the mechanism of intelligence and the nature of human thought in general, then the problem of space must surely ranks as of the highest importance. [...] It need hardly be said that a further reason for devoting special attention to the question of the development of spatial concepts is that any reasonable thoroughgoing investigation in this field is certain to suggest immediate practical applications."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: this translation first published in the Norton library: 1967
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EDITORIAL NOTE: this translation first published: London, UK : Routledge, 1956. Reprinted 1997
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Preface -- Translators' notes -- Summary -- TOPOLOGICAL SPACE : Perceptual space, representational space, and the haptic perception of shape : Perceptual or sensori-motor space ; The recognition of shapes ('haptic perception') -- The treatment of elementary spatial relationships in drawing : 'pictorial space' : Space in spontaneous drawings ; The drawing of geometrical figures -- Linear and circular order -- The study of knots and the relationship of 'surrounding' -- The idea of points and the idea of continuity -- PROJECTIVE SPACE : Summary -- Projective lines and perspective : Construction of the projective straight line ; Perspective -- The projection of shadows -- The co-ordination of perspectives -- Geometrical sections -- The rotation and development of surfaces -- THE TRANSITION FROM PROJECTIVE TO EUCLIDEAN SPACE : Summary -- Affinitive transformations of the rhombus and the conservation of parallels -- Similarities and proportions : Similar triangles ; The similarity of rectangles -- Systems of reference and horizontal-vertical co-ordinates -- Diagrammatic layouts and the plan of a model village -- General conclusions : the 'intuition' of space -- Index
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LANGUAGE NOTE: translation from the French: La répresentation de l'espace chez l'enfant. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1948, ©1947
Language:
English
