"J. H. Lambert, fifty years after Saccheri, also fell just short... His starting point is very similar to Saccheri's, and he distinguishes the same three hypotheses; but he went further than Saccheri. He actually showed that on the hypothesis of the obtuse angle the area of a triangle is proportional to the excess of the sum of its angles over two right angles, which is the case for the geometry on the sphere, and he concluded that the hypothesis of the acute angle would be verified on a sphere of imaginary radius. ... He dismisses the hypothesis of the obtuse angle, since it requires that two straight lines should enclose a space, but his argument against the hypothesis of the acute angle, such as the non-existence of similar figures, he characterises as arguments ab amore et invidia ducta [guided by love and jealousy]. Thus he arrived at no definite conclusion, and his researches were only published some years after his death."
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