Flatland
Subtitle: a romance of many dimensions : with illus. by the author, a square/cby Edwin A. Abbott...
Edition: 6th ed., rev.; with introd. by Banesh Hoffmann.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Fourth dimension
First sentence: I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
Table of contents: title: THIS WORLD; title: Of the Nature of Flatland; title: Of the Climate & House in Flatland; title: Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland; title: Concerning Women; title: Of our Methods in Recognizing one another; title: Of Recognition by Sight; title: Concerning Irregular Figures; title: Of the Ancient Practice of Painting; title: Of the Universal Colour Bill; title: Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition; title: Concerning our Priests; title: Of the Doctrine of our Priests; title: OTHER WORLDS; title: How I had a Vision of Lineland; title: How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland; title: Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland; title: How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland; title: How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds; title: How I came to Spaceland and what I saw there; title: How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it; title: How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision; title: How I tried to teach the Theory of 3 Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success; title: How I thentried to diffuse the Theory of 3 Dimensions by other means, and of the result