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WE may define space as that which indicates and measures the extension of the Universe. We may determine the form and position of any material object by assuming three infinite planes, fixed in infinite space, and at right angles to each other. Space then is the room occupied by matter, or included between distant masses of matter; and, as such, we know of it only as possessing three dimensions:—length, breadth, thickness.
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RODWELL, G. On Space of Four Dimensions . Nature 8, 8–9 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008008a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008008a0