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I SEE your reviewer of Prof. Veronese's book on “Abstract Geometry” says: “Apparently this method” (that of pure geometry, free from axes, algebraic processes, &c.) “has not previously been applied to the discussion of space of more than three dimensions.“ Will you allow me to point out to him that this is a mistake? The case of four dimensions is discussed, and a general method indicated, in my “Foundations of Geometry,” which was reviewed in your issue of April 6, 1891 (vol. xliii; p. 554). I have not yet read Prof. Veronese's book, but from your review I gather he treats the subject rather differently.
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DIXON, E. “Abstract Geometry”. Nature 50, 596 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050596d0
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