Assertion: gauss | /r/CapableOf | measure large geodesic triangle
Facets:
value: in order to test
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: by Dunnington in Scripta mathematica, 20 (1954), 108–109 (Hoppe objects to the story that Gauss measured a large geodesic triangle in order to test whether Euclidean geometry was the “true” one, apparently under the impression that this would have been contrary to Gauss’s ideas.