- Paperback: 100 pages
- Publisher: Dodo Press (January 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1406503436
- ISBN-13: 978-1406503432
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,950,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Large Format for easy reading. Hugely influential work in which the author attempts popularise the notion of multidimensional geometry, but the book is also a clever satire on the social, moral, and religious values of the late 19th Centrury.
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"To the Secrets of Four, Five, or Even Six Dimensions", July 13 2006
By OAKSHAMAN "oakshaman" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
This is a book, indeed a fable, that was exquisitely designed to expand the mind. By showing how incomprehensible a three-dimensional world would be to two-dimensional entities, Abbott opens the door, and the mind, to speculation on higher dimensions. That is why the principles of this story are summarized in virtually every text dealing with the 4th dimension.I believe Abbott framed this tale primarily to serve as a philosophical and mathematical justification of spiritual and "heavenly" subjects. After all, if a Sphere seemed a supernatural entity in Flatland, would not a 4th Dimensional entity seem so to us? I suspect that Mr. Abbott was also a Freemason, since the "regular progression of science from a point to a line, from a line to a superficies, from a superficies to a solid" is the way Freemasonry explains the process by which the Deity brings the four levels of existance into being. Actually, this is a neo-platonic teaching device that can be traced through the literature of the Renaissance, via medieval Spain, to Alexandria....
An examination of Theosophical Society literature from this period will also show a fascination with the 4th dimension as an explanation for spirit phenomena. Personally, I believe that this train of thought is still a quite valid analogy.
I found this book a joy to read, but then, I was trained in classical Euclidian geometry and formal proofs as a boy. I understand that such training is quite extinct in most modern public schools....
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not illustrated, Dec 24 2006
By John P. Roberts - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
Why anyone would publish an unillustrated version of this marvelous book is beyond my understanding. Do not take my granting of a whole star as any sort of endorsement; one star is the lowest rating available.
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