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Historical, philological, and archival provenance for geometor.poincare.
Primary Public-Domain Textual Witnesses¶
All primary witnesses archived in resources/science_and_hypothesis/sources/ are 100% Public Domain worldwide (Henri Poincaré died 17 July 1912; William John Greenstreet died 28 June 1930; George Bruce Halsted died 16 March 1922; Sir Joseph Larmor died 19 May 1942; all editions published 1902–1905) and are verified by SHA-256 checksum in resources/science_and_hypothesis/sources_manifest.json:
1902 French Original (Paris: Ernest Flammarion): La Science et l’Hypothèse, Bibliothèque de Philosophie scientifique, 1902. Preserves Poincaré’s Author Introduction, Parts I–IV (Chapters I–XIII), and the section Les Géométries de Hilbert in Chapter III (pp. 63–64).
1905 British English Translation (London: Walter Scott Publishing Co.): Science and Hypothesis, translated by W. J. Greenstreet with an extensive Prefatory Essay by Sir Joseph Larmor, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
1905 American English Translation (New York: The Science Press): Science and Hypothesis, authorized translation by George Bruce Halsted, containing Henri Poincaré’s Special Preface to the English Edition and Halsted’s English translation of Hilbert’s Geometries (Science, 16 December 1904 / 1905 codex).
Editorial Collation Note¶
Where Walter Scott’s 1905 London edition compressed the conclusion of Chapter III (omitting Les Géométries de Hilbert) and trimmed technical sentences at the close of Chapters IV and V, the English track of this codex supplies Halsted’s 1905 authorized English translation with explicit apparatus banners so every paragraph of Poincaré’s 1902 French text has a complete, faithful English counterpart.