Flatland : : A Romance of Many Dimensions / / Edwin Abbott Abbott.
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial sc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Second and Revised Edition By the Editor
- FLATLAND: an introduction
- Part I. This World "Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
- § 1: Of the Nature of Flatland
- § 2: Of the climate and houses in Flatland
- § 3: Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
- § 4: Concerning the Women
- § 5: Of our methods of recognizing one another
- § 6: Of Recognition by Sight
- § 7: Concerning Irregular Figures
- § 8: Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
- § 9: Of the Universal Colour Bill
- § 10: Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
- § 11: Concerning our Priests
- § 12: Of the Doctrine of our Priests
- Part II. Other Worlds "O brave new worlds, Th at have such people in them!"
- § 13: How I had a Vision of Lineland
- § 14: How in my Vision I endeavoured to explain the nature of Flatland, but could not
- § 15: Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
- § 16: How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
- § 17: How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
- § 18: How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
- § 19: How, though the Sphere showed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
- § 20: How the Sphere encouraged me in a vision
- § 21: How I tried to teach the theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
- § 22: How I then tried to diff use the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result