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1988 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Spherical Geometry
verfasst von : B. A. Rosenfeld
Erschienen in: A History of Non-Euclidean Geometry
Verlag: Springer New York
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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The first geometry other than Euclidean geometry was spherical geometry, or, as the ancients called it, Sphaerica. This geometry appeared after plane and solid Euclidean geometry. The main stimulus for the rise of plane and solid geometry was the need to measure the areas of fields and other plane figures and the capacities of vessels and storehouses of various shapes, that is, the volumes of different solids. The main stimulus for the rise of spherical geometry was the study of the starry heavens.