The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art by Linda Dalrymple Henderson5/29/2023 Popularized during the later years of the century, these notions had begun to capture the public’s imagination by the turn of the century in much the same way Black Holes have done in recent years. The complex spatial possibilities suggested by a fourth dimension, as well as by the curved space of non-Euclidean geometry, were the outgrowth of developments in early nineteenth-century geometry. However, in the first two decades of the twentieth century, the idea promulgated by Hinton and many others that space might possess a higher, unseen fourth dimension was the dominant intellectual influence. In the long run, Einstein’s influence was to be far greater than that of Hinton, revolutionizing scientific theory and, after about 1919, the world view of laymen as well. Einstein, on the other hand, was at the threshold of his own life’s work, in 1905 formulating the first of his many contributions to science, the Special Theory of Relativity. Hinton had published his last major book, The Fourth Dimension, in 1904, three years before his death at age fifty-four. The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Artĭuring the years 1902 to 1907, at the time Albert Einstein was working in the Swiss Patent Office, Charles Howard Hinton, a little-known Englishman crucial to this study, was employed in the United States Patent Office in Washington, D.C. The Fourth Dimension And Non Euclidian Geometry in Modern Art (Introduction PDF)
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