Flatland A romance of many dimensions With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (Edwin A. Abbott ) To The Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL And H. C. IN PARTICULAR This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Flatland: A romance of many dimensions www.doorway.ru~banchoff/Flatland/ 1 of 75 02/15/ PMFile Size: KB. The mathematical, satirical, and religious allegory Flatland by a little-known but immensely prolific Victorian English schoolmaster and theologian Edwin Abbott Abbott, was first published anonymously in England in — Abbott wrote it under the name "A Square." The unique geometrical romance which is Flatland posited a world and its inhabitants that exist in only two dimensions and forces the reader Cited by: Edwin A. Abbott's classic tale of interdimensional experience. Credits. Flatland: A romance of many dimensions. by Edwin A. Abbott, a Square. "Fie, fie how franticly I square my talk!" [Fifth edition, revised.] Text by Edwin A. Abbott, ; copyright expired. Etext version transcribed by .
Flatland A romance of many dimensions With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (Edwin A. Abbott ) To The Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) - Kindle edition by Abbott, Edwin A.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions). Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of "Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics.
The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. A Masterpiece of Classic Science Fiction: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in Written pseudonymously by "A Square",the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott, is one of the oddest books that I have ever read. Published in it tells the tale of a square, a resident of a two dimensional world, and his discovery of an incredible third dimension when he is visited by a sphere from Spaceland.
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