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The decline of the West, Volume 1

Note 70 — Chapter II · THE MEANING OF NUMBERS

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

A beginning is now being made with the application of non-Euclidean geometries to astronomy. The hypothesis of curved space, closed but without limits, filled by the system of fixed stars on a radius of about 470,000,000 earth-distances, would lead to the hypothesis of a counter-image of the sun which to us appears as a star of medium brilliancy. (See translator’s footnote, p. 332.)

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