Flatland
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Table of contents
- Title Page2
- Note3
- Copyright Page4
- Introduction5
- Dedication6
- Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 18847
- Table of Contents8
- PART I: THIS WORLD9
- 1.—Of the Nature of Flatland10
- 2.—Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland.11
- 3.—Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland12
- 4.—Concerning the Women13
- 5.—Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another15
- 6.—Of Recognition by Sight17
- 7.—Concerning Irregular Figures19
- 8.—Of the Ancient Practice of Painting20
- 9.—Of the Universal Colour Bill21
- 10.—Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition22
- 11.—Concerning Our Priests23
- 12.—Of the Doctrine of Our Priests24
- PART II: OTHER WORLDS26
- 13.—How I Had a Vision of Lineland27
- 14.—How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland28
- 15.—Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland30
- 16.—How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland31
- 17.—How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds34
- 18.—How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There35
- 19.—How, Though the Sphere Shewed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It37
- 20.—How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision40
- 21.—How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success41
- 22.—How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by Other Means, and of the Result42
- DOVER · THRIFT · EDITIONS44
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. 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. "Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination." — Mathematics Teacher.