# Archimedes; or, the future of physics

Author: Whyte, Lancelot Law, 1896-1972

Genre: Category: Science - Physics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75452

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## Summary

One of the most fascinating features in the history of thought is that on several occasions an important new idea has come simultaneously to independent minds. Thus after Euclid’s geometry had remained without a rival for two thousand years the conception of an alternative non-Euclidean system was reached separately by Gauss, Lobatschewsky, and Bolyai during the years 1820-30. Bolyai’s father, while ignorant of the fact that Gauss had already made the same discoveries, wrote to his son urging him to publish his results and used the following prophetic words:

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/archimedes-or-the-future-of-physics-75452/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/archimedes-or-the-future-of-physics-75452/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/archimedes-or-the-future-of-physics-75452/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/archimedes-or-the-future-of-physics-75452/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/archimedes-or-the-future-of-physics-75452/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/archimedes-or-the-future-of-physics-75452/chapters/3/index.md)