Just going through my files and thought this link may be of interest.
This was the mathematics which broke with Kant's pure empty form of
space which Kant inherited from Aristotle. It is of particular interest
to myself because I use this to date the bifurcation of the Kantian
Sublime into a Modern Sublime (that's another story....)
www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Riemann/Geom/WKCGeom.htm
On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry.
Bernhard Riemann
Translated by William Kingdon Clifford
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