TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bienvenu,Alexis
TI  - Helmholtz, Critique of Kant's Geometry
PY  - 2002///.
							
N1  - 59
N2  - 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
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-de-metaphysique-et-de-morale-2002-3-page-379?lang=en
ER  -