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.
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