 | 1875 - 1012 sider
...change effected byCopernicus in the idea of the Universe. But there was left another to be made. For the laws of space and motion, that we are presently...something that is true throughout the Immensities and the Eternities. That something Lobatchewsky and liis successors have taken away. The geometer of to-day... | |
 | William Kingdon Clifford - 1882 - 358 sider
...well known, if the Euclidean assumptions are true, as the geometry of any portion of this room.... So that here we have real knowledge of something at least that concerns INTRODUCTION. xlv the Cosmos; something that is true of the Immensities and the Eternities. That something... | |
 | John Gibson Cazenove - 1886 - 172 sider
...infinite distance from us would be as well known as the geometry of this room, so that here we should have real knowledge of something at least that concerns...and eternities. That something Lobatchewsky and his followers have taken away.' Clifford hence argued that we have no reason for believing in an immaterial... | |
 | Amos Emerson Dolbear - 1894 - 442 sider
...parts of space at an infinite distance is as well known as the geometry of any portion of this room. So that here we have real knowledge of something at...something that is true throughout the immensities and the eternities. That something Lobotchewski and his successors have taken away." \VK CLIFFORD : Phitwfhy... | |
 | Henry John Stephen Smith - 1894 - 729 sider
...well known, if the Euclidean assumptions are true, as the geometry of any portion of this room . . . , so that here we have real knowledge of something at...that concerns the Cosmos ; something that is true of the Immensities and the Eternities. That something Lobatchewsky and his successors have taken away.... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 434 sider
...which are at an infinite distance from us, "geometry upon the plane at infinity," is just as well known as the geometry of any portion of this room. In this...something that is true throughout the Immensities and the Eternities. That something Lobatchewsky and his successors have taken away. The geometer of to-day... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 784 sider
...situated during at least some portion of an infinite and thoroughly well-known time. So that there we have real knowledge of something at least that...something that is true throughout the Immensities and the Eternities. That something Lobatchewski and his successors have taken away. The geometer of today... | |
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... properties as space and time everything was accurately known. The very constitution of those parts of it which are at an infinite distance from us, 'geometry upon the plane at infinity... 