Research the history of a concept -- "hyperspace"-- in a periodicals full-text database: JSTOR

Contents of the database: text of numerous scholarly periodicals in humanities and social sciences (e.g. history of philosophy, social history etc)
For search strategies, see CATI website http://www.cati.paris4.sorbonne.fr
then (in left-hand margin) "Campus numérique"
then "Formation documentaire"
then "1 - Ressources: modes d'emploi des bases de données auxquelles le centre CATI est abonné, par Raeleen Chai-Elsholz"

Perform a search on the keyword "hyperspace" and comment on the history of the word: it was first (19th c) a mathematical term for the curved non-Euclidean spaces that started being invented then.