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DR. JEFFREYS (NATURE, April 28, p. 267) claims that “experimental geometry” is a contradiction in terms. I protest vehemently. “Geometry” means the measurement of the earth. How can you measure the earth without experiment? It is “logical geometry” that is the contradiction in terms; it is that expression which has introduced all this confusion between logic and experiment; and it is the mathematicians, not the experimenters, who have stolen the word and perverted it from its proper meaning.
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CAMPBELL, N. Experimental Geometry. Nature 107, 301 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107301e0
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