Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions

A Romance of Many Dimensions

By: Edwin A. Abbott

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Hardcover | 1 December 1963 | Edition Number 5

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Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction charmingly illustrated by the author describes the adventures of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions).

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This pre-Einstein geometrical fantasy is one of the best things of its kind that has ever been written, for it is more than an ingeniously sustained fantasy: it is a social satire, with wit as sharp as the sub-lutrous end of a Flatland woman; it is aneasy philosophical introduction to the Fourth Dimension; and it is a rebuke to everyone who holds that there is no reality beyond what is perceptible by human senses. Saturday Review This pre-Einstein geometrical fantasy is one of the best things of its kind that has ever been written, for it is more than an ingeniously sustained fantasy: it is a social satire, with wit as sharp as the sub-lutrous end of a Flatland woman; it is an easy philosophical introduction to the Fourth Dimension; and it is a rebuke to everyone who holds that there is no reality beyond what is perceptible by human senses. Saturday Review

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Non-Fiction Mathematics Miscellaneous Items Fiction Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Limitations	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884, by the Editor	p. xix
This World
Of the Nature of Flatland	p. 1
Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland	p. 4
Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland	p. 7
Concerning the Women	p. 11
Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another	p. 18
Of Recognition by Sight	p. 24
Concerning Irregular Figures	p. 31
Of the Ancient Practice of Painting	p. 36
Of the Universal Colour Bill	p. 39
Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition	p. 44
Concerning Our Priests	p. 50
Of the Doctrine of Our Priests	p. 53
Other Worlds
How I Had a Vision of Lineland	p. 61
How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland	p. 67
Concerning a Strange from Spaceland	p. 74
How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland	p. 78
How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds	p. 89
How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There	p. 92
How, Though the Sphere Shewed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It	p. 98
How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision	p. 107
How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success	p. 111
How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by Other Means, and of the Result	p. 115
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