...a carefull and scholarly discussion of the history and philosophy ofgeometry from the 1850s marked by Riemanns generalized conception of spaceand ending with... » 

...a carefull and scholarly discussion of the history and philosophy ofgeometry from the 1850s marked by Riemanns generalized conception of spaceand ending with Hilberts axiomatics and PoincarAcs conventionalism at thebeginning of the century. The Modern Schoolman This is a deeply learnedscrupulously careful very informative book which was well worth writing... Insum Toretti has written carefully with much insight deep and broad learningand sober judgement on a topic of profound difficulty and interest. AustralianJournal of Philosophy Torretti has written a very useful book which helps filla large gap in the literature on the philosophy of mathematics. ThePhilosophical Quarterly It delves into the contributions of many neglectedwriters and dispells myths concerning the contributions of others which havetoo often been perpetuated in the philosophical literature... I suggest that itdeserves to become a standard word. Dialogue «