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Full Idea
Geometry no longer throws any direct light on the nature of actual space.
Gist of Idea
Geometry throws no light on the nature of actual space
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903], §353)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Principles of Mathematics' [Routledge 1992], p.374
A Reaction
This was 1903. Minkowski then contributed a geometry of space which was used in Einstein's General Theory. It looks to me as if geometry reveals the possibilities for actual space.