Flatland
Original title: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (English)
Credits: Edwin Abbott Abbott (author)
Summary
Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions (dt. Titel „Flächenland“) ist eine 1884 von Edwin Abbott Abbott unter dem Pseudonym A. Square veröffentlichte Novelle. Die Schrift ist eine Satire auf die Struktur der Viktorianischen Gesellschaft sowie ein mathematisches Essay über die vierte Dimension.
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Chapters (22)
- 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
- 2. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
- 3. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
- 4. Concerning the Women
- 5. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
- 6. Of Recognition by Sight
- 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
- 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
- 9. Of the Universal Colour Bill
- 10. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
- 11. Concerning our Priests
- 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
- 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland
- 14. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
- 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
- 16. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me
- 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words,
- 18. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
- 19. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries
- 20. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
- 21. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions
- 22. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory