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    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated)
    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated)
    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated)
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    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated)

    By Edwin Abbott Abbott

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    Illustrated version of "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott.

    This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), 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.

    Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYoucanprint
    Release dateJul 30, 2018
    ISBN9788827841518
    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated)
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    Edwin Abbott Abbott

    Edwin Abbott (1838–1926) was an English educator and theologian best known for his 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a forerunner of modern science fiction. 

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