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Geometry very likely arose from the experimental need to do things like measuring land areas, but it soon went beyond this purely empirical existence to appear in the highly systematised form given to it by Euclid. It claimed its independence from the experimental facts that had given rise to it.
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Lemaître, G. (2019). Chapter 1 Space and Time. In: Govaerts, J., Stoffel, JF. (eds) Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaître. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22030-3_1
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