Flatland
Original title: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (English)
Credits: Edwin Abbott Abbott (author)
Summary
Flatland (également publiée, en France, sous le nom de Flatland ou Le Plat pays, ou plus récemment Flatland : Fantaisie en plusieurs dimensions) est une allégorie publiée en 1884, où l'auteur, Edwin Abbott Abbott, donne vie aux dimensions géométriques, le point, la ligne et les surfaces, avant d'en arriver à faire découvrir l'univers des volumes par un carré. Cette allégorie n'est pas sans rappeler la sortie de la caverne, voire le cheminement de Don Quichotte, l'hidalgo de Cervantes. En outre, Flatland peut conduire à imaginer des dimensions spatiales supérieures aux trois dimensions que nous connaissons.
From Wikipedia (French): Flatland (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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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