The Spatial Reformation: Euclid between man, cosmos, and God

The book "The Spatial Reformation" argues that space is a human construction: that is, a concept that arises from the human imagination and is expressed physically in texts and material objects. The historian Michael Sauter starts from the demonstration of how Euclidean geometry, when fully applied to the cosmos, alienated man from God, allowing the advance towards heliocentrism and thus opening the doors to the discovery of the New World.

The Spatial Reformation contends that space is a human construct: that is, it is a concept that arises from the human imagination and gets expressed physically in texts and material objects. Sauter begins his examination by demonstrating how Euclidean geometry, when it was applied fully to the cosmos, estranged God from man, enabling the breakthrough to heliocentrism and, by extension, the discovery of the New World.