Talk:Euclid and his Modern Rivals

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CORRECTION: The final sentence of the first paragraph is wrong and should be dropped. The idea that Dodgson was somehow against non-Euclidean geometry is based on a common misconception. The book has nothing at all to do with non-Euclidean geometry. The modern rivals were the writers of textbooks in use at that time and (according to Dodgson, who might well have been correct) inferior to Euclid. His idea was that Euclid's original text should be used in the schools. H.S.M. Coxeter, who wrote the preface to the Dover edition, referred to that misconception, adding that there is no evidence that Dodgson had even heard of non-Euclidean geometry. --unsigned comment by IP 142.3.219.69 20:50, 22 February 2006