It is in the text known as "The Origin of Geometry," published as Appendix VI to The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology,¹ that the problem of history comes to the fore in Edmund Husserl's writings. Husserl there states: "As will become evident here, at first in connection with one example, our investigations are historical in an unaccustomed sense."² This claim raises several questions. First: what is the "unaccustomed sense" in which history here presents itself? Second, and more fundamentally: what are the implications for Husserl's philosophy of this admission that it must confront the problem of history?