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(1976) The concepts of space and time, Dordrecht, Springer.
…When I was taught geometry, geometry and Euclid were synonymous terms; and it never occurred to me to doubt that I lived and moved in Euclidean space, extending, quite obviously, in all its three dimensions, without limit. I suspect that, if we look into our minds, all but a few accomplished mathematicians will find the old framework of space and time still unshaken. Common sense lags a good way behind the reasonings of revolutionary thinkers.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1727-5_1
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Cornford, F. M. (1976)., The invention of space, in M. Čapek (ed.), The concepts of space and time, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 3-16.
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