With careful training, how fast the brightness falls off would denote shape and societal status, not much different, I suppose, from how clothes labels do today.
Each dimension has grave difficulties envisioning any other world, much like we do in our own. In fact, those who advocate recognition of worlds with different structural dimensions are subject to criminal prosecution. Amazon describes this edition as: Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This edition is so horribly modern and so absolutely not a facsimile reprint of the original as to make that description laughable. None of the original artwork is present. Instead it has been replaced with someone's horrible attempt at reproducing the pictures using nothing but ASCII characters.
If you're a fan of Flatland and want a nice hardback volume for your collection, this volume is not for you. If you've never read Flatland and will be reading it for the first time which is when the illustrations are of the most value this volume is not for you. Unless you just want to buy a book to use as firewood, this volume is not for you. I have never returned a book to Amazon before - but will be doing so with this one.
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FLATLAND—THE ANNOTATED VERSION
Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland three dimensions , Lineland one dimension and Pointland no dimensions and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space.
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Don't have a Kindle? Dover Publications; 1 edition Sept. About the Author Fifty Years in the Flatland will mark the 50th anniversary in print with Dover of one of the most significant and influential books of the past century and a half. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. A classic of early science fiction? It's all of these, yet totally unique, an intellectual morsel that should have been twice as long. The author takes us into a world of two dimensional figures where everything in life is determined by the size of one's angles and no one questions the harsh order of a strict social hierarchy.
What happens when the unthinkable occurs and a sphere enters their world, convincing a square of the reality of a third dimension?
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Beautifully written and unforgettable. In defence of Abbott, it is obvious to me that Flatland does not represent his social ideal, but he is making a comment on the faults of Victorian class structure which he intends to challenge by his own Christian faith. One person found this helpful. This was bought as a gift for Father's Day, so I did not look too closely at the way the book was published.
As I was writing the dedication, I noticed that the type layout was centred on each page, and thought this might be a quirk of the book's Victorian origins. However, when my husband started reading it he commented that there were references to diagrams - which Amazon as publishers did not include! A quick perusal of the book showed that instead of a diagram a number was placed eg , , , etc. Perhaps these numbers were supposed to be placeholders? However, it is unacceptable that Amazon offer a book that it has published for sale, and that book is incomplete.
This is poor quality altogether. Though the book itself is highly recommended as a piece of Victoriana, the Amazon edition is substandard.
I've just received the book and immediately threw it away. This particular edition is just terrible. The formatting, the fonts, the layout is so terrible that it is almost impossible to read. The book doesn't contain illustrations which were present in the original, and since this is a book full of geometric concepts, it doesn't make any sense to read it without pictures.
As soon as I received it I immediately ordered another edition which I hope will be better. See all reviews.
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