Flatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsCosimo, Inc., 01.06.2007 - 108 Seiten Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction -- charmingly illustrated by author -- describes the journeys of A. Square and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A. Square also entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions -- a revolutionary idea for which he is banished from Spaceland. |
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Complete with Illustrations) Edwin A. Abbott Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
according to Analogy angles appear Art of Sight behold Chief Circle Chromatistes Circular Colour Revolt Configuration Contralto COSIMO countrymen creature Cube degrees dimness discern distinguish Dodecagon dream Equilateral Triangle exclaimed existence extremities feel Female Figure Fourth Dimension Geometrical Progression Gospel of Three Grandson half hearing Hexagon household hundred sides imprisonment infer inhabitant of Flatland inside Irregular Isosceles King Land of Three Law of Nature length Lineland look Lord Lordship Male marriage mean Monarch motion mouth moving Northward offspring once Pentagon perfect perfect Circle Perimeter Plane Polygon Priests recognize Regular replied SECTION Sedition sense of sight shew sides equal Sight Recognition Soldier solid angles Space speak Sphere Square Straight Line Stranger suppose tablets Third Dimension thou Three Dimensions three inches Tradesman truth Universal Colour Bill unrecognized Dimension Upward utterance vision voice Wentbridge whole Wife Woman Women words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - 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...
Seite 7 - ... countrymen; and I am mocked at — I, the sole possessor of the truths of Space and of the theory of the introduction of Light from the world of Three Dimensions — as if I were the maddest of the mad! But a truce to these painful digressions: let me return to our houses. The most common form for the construction of a house is five-sided or pentagonal, as in the annexed figure. The two Northern sides RO, OF, constitute the roof, and for the most part have no doors; on the East is a small door...
Seite 9 - ... with us that a male child shall have one more side than his, father, so that each generation shall rise (as a rule) one step in the scale of development and nobility. Thus the son of a Square is a Pentagon; the son of a Pentagon, a Hexagon; and so on. But this rule applies not always to the Tradesmen, and still less often to the Soldiers, and to the Workmen; who indeed can hardly be said to deserve the name of human Figures, since they have not all their sides equal.