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 Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
ISBN: 0738205419
Release Date: Jan 6, 1992
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Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to The Land of Three Dimensions, an experience that forever alters his worldview. By contemplating the notion of dimensions beyond their own, Abbott's Victorian readers were exposed to the then-radical idea of a fourth dimension -- preparing them for Einstein's spectacular theories of relativity.
Like the original, Ian Stewart's commentary takes readers on a strange and wonderful journey. With clarity and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott's numerous Victorian references, weaves in little known biographical information about Abbott and his intellectual circle -- elucidating Abbott's remarkable connections to H.G. Wells and the mathematician George Boole -- and traces the scientific evolution of geometric forms and dimensions.
In addition, Stewart provides an extensive bibliography of Abbott's work and that of Charles Howard Hinton, whose wild but ingenious speculations about the fourth dimension undoubtedly inspired Abbott's fable.
Touching on such diverse topics as ancient Babylon, Karl Marx, the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Gregorian calendar, Mt. Everest, and phrenology, Stewart makes fascinating connections between Flatland and Edwin A. Abbott's life and times. The result is a classic to rival Abbott's own, and a book that will inspire and delight curious readers for generations to come.
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| | | |  | | | | Preface | ix | | Introduction | xiii | | The Annotated Flatland | 1 | | Introduction | 9 | | Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884 | 21 | | Part I | This World | 31 | | 1 | Of the Nature of Flatland | 33 | | 2 | Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland | 38 | | 3 | Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland | 43 | | 4 | Concerning the Women | 49 | | 5 | Of our Methods of Recognizing one another | 57 | | 6 | Of Recognition by Sight | 65 | | 7 | Concerning Irregular Figures | 73 | | 8 | Of the Ancient Practice of Painting | 79 | | 9 | Of the Universal Colour Bill | 84 | | 10 | Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition | 90 | | 11 | Concerning our Priests | 97 | | 12 | Of the Doctrine of our Priests | 101 | | Part II | Other Worlds | 111 | | 13 | How I had a Vision of Lineland | 113 | | 14 | How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland | 121 | | 15 | Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland | 129 | | 16 | How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland | 136 | | 17 | How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds | 149 | | 18 | How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there | 155 | | 19 | How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it | 164 | | 20 | How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision | 181 | | 21 | How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success | 187 | | 22 | How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result | 191 | | The Fourth Dimension in Mathematics | 203 | | Bibliography of Edwin Abbott Abbott | 231 | | Bibliography of Charles Howard Hinton | 235 | | Sources and References | 237 | | Further Reading | 239 |
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