Download or read book Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions Annotated Classic Edition written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world--its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.

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Download or read book Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London.

Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? In Flatland, A Square's linear world is invaded by a Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, the novel enlarges readers' imaginations beyond the limits of our 'respective dimensional prejudices'.

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", [1] 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.

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. 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.

Download or read book Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions Annotated written by Edwin Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. 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.Several films have been made from the story, including the feature film Flatland (2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the short films Flatland: The Movie (2007) and Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012).

Download or read book Flatland Annotated written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium.On New Year's Eve, the Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by "lustrous points". These points are unable to see the Square as anything other than a set of points on a line. Thus, the Square attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so. In the end, the monarch of Lineland tries to kill A Square rather than tolerate his nonsense any further.Following this vision, he is himself visited by a three-dimensional sphere. Similar to the "points" in Lineland, the Square is unable to see the sphere as anything other than a circle. The Sphere then levitates up and down through the Flatland, allowing Square to see the circle expand and retract. The Square is not fully convinced until he sees Spaceland (a tridimensional world) for himself. This Sphere visits Flatland at the turn of each millennium to introduce a new apostle to the idea of a third dimension in the hope of eventually educating the population of Flatland. From the safety of Spaceland, they are able to observe the leaders of Flatland secretly acknowledging the existence of the sphere and prescribing the silencing on. After this proclamation is made, many witnesses are massacred or imprisoned (according to caste), including the Square's brother.After the Square's mind is opened to new dimensions, he tries to convince the Sphere of the theoretical possibility of the existence of a fourth and higher spatial dimensions; but the Sphere returns his student to Flatland in disgrace.

Download or read book Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott Annotated Edition written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT (20 DECEMBER 1838 - 12 OCTOBER 1926) WAS AN ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTER, THEOLOGIAN, AND ANGLICAN PRIEST, BEST KNOWN AS THE AUTHOR OF THE NOVELLA FLATLAND (1884).EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT WAS THE ELDEST SON OF EDWIN ABBOTT (1808-1882), HEADMASTER OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL, MARYLEBONE, AND HIS WIFE, JANE ABBOTT (1806-1882). HIS PARENTS WERE FIRST COUSINS.HE WAS EDUCATED AT THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL AND AT ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WHERE HE TOOK THE HIGHEST HONORS OF HIS CLASS IN CLASSICS, MATHEMATICS AND THEOLOGY, AND BECAME A FELLOW OF HIS COLLEGE. IN PARTICULAR, HE WAS 1ST SMITH'S PRIZEMAN IN 1861. IN 1862 HE TOOK ORDERS. AFTER HOLDING MASTERSHIPS AT KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM, HE SUCCEEDED G. F. MORTIMER AS HEADMASTER OF THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL IN 1865, AT THE EARLY AGE OF 26. THERE, HE OVERSAW THE EDUCATION OF FUTURE PRIME MINISTER H. H. ASQUITH. ABBOTT WAS HULSEAN LECTURER IN 1876.HE RETIRED IN 1889, AND DEVOTED HIMSELF TO LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL PURSUITS. ABBOTT'S LIBERAL INCLINATIONS IN THEOLOGY WERE PROMINENT BOTH IN HIS EDUCATIONAL VIEWS AND IN HIS BOOKS. HIS SHAKESPEARIAN GRAMMAR (1870) IS A PERMANENT CONTRIBUTION TO ENGLISH PHILOLOGY. IN 1885, HE PUBLISHED A LIFE OF FRANCIS BACON. HIS THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS INCLUDE THREE ANONYMOUSLY PUBLISHED RELIGIOUS ROMANCES - PHILOCHRISTUS (1878), WHERE HE TRIED TO RAISE INTEREST IN GOSPELS READING, ONESIMUS (1882), AND SILANUS THE CHRISTIAN (1908).ABBOTT ALSO WROTE EDUCATIONAL TEXT BOOKS, ONE BEING "VIA LATINA: FIRST LATIN BOOK" WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1898 AND DISTRIBUTED AROUND THE WORLD WITHIN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.ABBOTT'S BEST-KNOWN WORK IS HIS 1884 NOVELLA FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS WHICH DESCRIBES A TWO-DIMENSIONAL WORLD AND EXPLORES THE NATURE OF DIMENSIONS. IT HAS OFTEN BEEN CATEGORIZED AS SCIENCE FICTION ALTHOUGH IT COULD MORE PRECISELY BE CALLED "MATHEMATICAL FICTION".WITH THE ADVENT OF MODERN SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE 1950S TO THE PRESENT DAY, FLATLAND HAS SEEN A REVIVAL IN POPULARITY, ESPECIALLY AMONG SCIENCE FICTION AND CYBERPUNK FANS. MANY WORKS HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THE NOVELLA, INCLUDING NOVEL SEQUELS AND SHORT FILMS.

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London.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.Several films have been made from the story, including the feature film Flatland (2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the short films Flatland: The Movie (2007) and Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012).

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Download or read book Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A Abbott Annotated Edition written by Edwin Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years-including contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. This mind-expanding satire describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to the features of Flatland before recounting his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension. Although Flatland did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, it gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction. Includes the author's original drawings and an short biography

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