# #Mon Aug 09 12:12:16 CEST 2010 Text__k04LkKOeEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Curved Universes Before Einstein\: Schwarzschild's Cosmological Speculations Text__k04LkKOeEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=In notes from 1899 and in a publication from 1900, Karl Schwarzschild speculates about the possibility that the geometry of the universe is non-Euclidean. Besides Euclidean, flat space he considers two types of curved spaces, the elliptical and the hyperbolic.