Flatland - a romance of many dimensionsEdwin Abbott was a mathematician who used the idea of 'Flatland' - a world |
Contents
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| 12 | |
Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland | 15 |
Concerning the Women | 18 |
Of our Methods in Recognizing one another | 23 |
Of Recognition by Sight | 28 |
Concerning Irregular Figures | 33 |
Of the Ancient Practice of Painting | 36 |
OTHER WORLDS 13 How I had a Vision of Lineland | 55 |
How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland | 60 |
Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland | 65 |
How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal | 69 |
How the Sphere having in vain tried words | 77 |
How I came to Spaceland what I saw there | 80 |
How though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries | 85 |
How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision | 92 |
Of the Universal Colour Bill | 39 |
Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition | 43 |
Concerning our Priests | 47 |
Of the Doctrine of our Priests | 50 |
How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions | 95 |
How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three | 98 |
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