Bienvenu, Alexis <br/><br/>
Helmholtz, Critique of Kant's Geometry 

 -  2002.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This paper aims at presenting the first French translation of two of Helmholtz's texts written in 1878. In these texts, Helmholtz used the then recently developed non-Euclidean geometries to analyze Kant's conception of space. Through this, he provided a purely empiricist redefinition of what determines space. This "physical geometry" greatly influenced Poincaré (who did not totally agree with him) and Einstein.