Flatland

a Romance of Many Dimensions

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Flatland (2021, Independently Published)

lingua English

Pubblicato il 24 Settembre 2021 da Independently Published.

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979-8-7746-0561-3
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies. A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story's discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies.

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ha recensito Flatland di Edwin Abbott Abbott

The interesting bits are burried by the boring

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Firstly it can't be dismissed how prescient a concept the fourth dimension and the importance of time was when this book was penned. The idea would be nothing more than fantasy up until Abbott's final years, when some dude named Einstein wrote a theory. The parts of the book that center around the topic of dimensions and the separations between holds up nearly 1.5 centuries later.

Unfortunately, Abbott goes into great detail on the imagined lives and societies of the creatures in the first and second dimension as a commentary on the Victorian period.

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