"... went considerably beyond Sacherri in deducing propositions under the hypotheses of the acute and obtuse angles. Thus, with Sacherri, he showed that in the three hypotheses the sum of the angles of a triangle is less than, equal to, or greater than two right angles, respectively, and... in addition, that the deficiency... in the hypothesis of the acute angle, or the excess, in the hypothesis of the obtuse angle, is proportional to the area of the triangle. He observed the resemblance of the geometry following the... obtuse angle to spherical geometry... and conjectured that the geometry following from... the acute angle could perhaps be verified on the sphere of imaginary radius."
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