The Spatial Reformation: Euclid Between Man, Cosmos, and God

In The Spatial Reformation, Michael J. Sauter offers a sweeping history of the way Europeans conceived of three—dimensional space, including the relationship between Earth and the heavens, between 1350 and 1850. He argues that this "spatial reformation" provoked a reorganization of knowledge in the West that was arguably as important as the religious Reformation. Notably, it had its own sacred text, which proved as central and was as ubiquitously embraced: Euclid's Elements. Aside from the ...