Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

ISBN: 1640320830

Author: Abbott, Edwin

Condition: New

Unabridged, illustrated value reproduction of Flatland by Edwin Abbott, in this affordably printed volume, is a book that belongs on everyone's shelf.Published originally in 1884, Abbott's novella was a social commentary told through mathematical a framework. With Einstein's 1915 publication of the Theory of Relativity, Flatland became popular as a prophet of four dimensions.This Value Classic Reprint provides a slim volume with full text and illustrations of this timeless classic at an affordable price.TABLE OF CONTENTSPART I THIS WORLD 4 1.--OF THE NATURE OF FLATLAND. 4 2.--OF THE CLIMATE AND HOUSES IN FLATLAND. 5 3.--CONCERNING THE INHABITANTS OF FLATLAND. 6 4.--CONCERNING THE WOMEN. 8 5.--OF OUR METHODS OF RECOGNIZING ONE ANOTHER. 10 6.--OF RECOGNITION BY SIGHT. 12 7.--OF IRREGULAR FIGURES. 14 8.--OF THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF PAINTING. 16 9.--OF THE UNIVERSAL COLOR BILL. 17 10.--OF THE SUPPRESSION OF THE CHROMATIC SEDITION. 19 11.--CONCERNING OUR PRIESTS. 21 12.--OF THE DOCTRINE OF OUR PRIESTS. 22PART II OTHER WORLDS 25 13.--HOW I HAD A VISION OF LINELAND. 25 14.--HOW I VAINLY TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF FLATLAND. 27 15.--CONCERNING A STRANGER FROM SPACELAND. 29 16.--HOW THE STRANGER VAINLY ENDEAVORED TO REVEAL TO ME IN WORDS THE MYSTERIES OF SPACELAND. 31 17.--HOW THE SPHERE, HAVING IN VAIN TRIED WORDS, RESORTED TO DEEDS. 34 18.--HOW I CAME TO SPACELAND, AND WHAT I SAW THERE. 35 19.--HOW, THOUGH THE SPHERE SHOWED ME OTHER MYSTERIES OF SPACELAND, I STILL DESIRED MORE; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 38 20.--HOW THE SPHERE ENCOURAGED ME IN A VISION. 41 21.--HOW I TRIED TO TEACH THE THEORY OF THREE DIMENSIONS TO MY GRANDSON, AND WITH WHAT SUCCESS. 42 22.--HOW I THEN TRIED TO DIFFUSE THE THEORY OF THREE DIMENSIONS BY OTHER MEANS, AND OF THE RESULT. 43