This dominant view was overturned by the revolutionary discovery of non-Euclidean geometry in the works of Gauss (who never published his theory), Bolyai, and Lobachevsky, who demonstrated that ordinary Euclidean space is only one possibility for development of geometry.
This dominant view was overturned by the revolutionary discovery of non-Euclidean geometry in the works of Gauss (who never published his theory). This dominant view was overturned by Bolyai. This dominant view was overturned by Lobachevsky. Ordinary Euclidean space is only one possibility for development of geometry. Lobachevsky demonstrated this.