Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English theologian, Anglican priest and 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 satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring ...
Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers. "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott is a satirical novella published in 1884. Set in a two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric shapes, the story follows a Square who encounters beings from one-dimensional Lineland and is visited by a mysterious Sphere. As his understanding of reality expands beyond the flat ...
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Flatland : a romance of many dimensions / by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Square)
Artnet news: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions – SINTA TANTRA Solo Exhibition
Hong Kong—Pearl Lam Galleries is pleased to present Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, the first solo exhibition of British/Indonesian artist Sinta Tantra in Hong Kong. Tantra’s vibrant geometric ...
The unique geometrical romance which is Flatland posited a world and its inhabitants that exist in only two dimensions and forces the reader captivated by the originality of this central idea to think deeply about the meaning of such a world.
I—alas, I alone in Flatland—know now only too well the true solution of this mysterious problem; but my knowledge cannot be made intelligible to a single one of my countrymen; and I am mocked at —I, the sole possessor of the truths of Space and of the theory of the introduction of Light from the world of three Dimensions—as if I were ...