Flatland - Edwin Abbott Abbott - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781985034136 - February 12, 2018
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Flatland

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flatland

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. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows-only hard with luminous edges-and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe: " but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things. In such a country, you will perceive at once that it is impossible that there should be anything of what you call a "solid" kind; but I dare say you will suppose that we could at least distinguish by sight the Triangles, Squares, and other figures, moving about as I have described them. On the contrary, we could see nothing of the kind, not at least so as to distinguish one figure from another. Nothing was visible, nor could be visible, to us, except Straight Lines; and the necessity of this I will speedily demonstrate.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 12, 2018
ISBN13 9781985034136
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 116
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 6 mm   ·   163 g
Language English  

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