Geometry has fascinated philosophers since the days of Thales and Pythagoras. In the 17th and 18th centuries it provided a paradigm of knowledge after which som

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Early in this century, it was shown that the new non-Newtonian physics -- known as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity -- rested on a new, non-Euclidean geo

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* A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and