An Episode Of Flatland Or How A Plane Folk Discovered The Third Dimension
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An Episode Of Flatland
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Author : Charles Howard Hinton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
An Episode Of Flatland written by Charles Howard Hinton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Geometry, Plane categories.
An Episode Of Flatland Or How A Plane Folk Discovered The Third Dimension
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Author : Charles Howard Hinton
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
An Episode Of Flatland Or How A Plane Folk Discovered The Third Dimension written by Charles Howard Hinton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with categories.
An Episode Of Flatland Or How A Plane Folk Discovered The Third Dimension To Which Is Added An Outline Of The History Of Unaea
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Author : Charles Howard Hinton
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
An Episode Of Flatland Or How A Plane Folk Discovered The Third Dimension To Which Is Added An Outline Of The History Of Unaea written by Charles Howard Hinton and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV A DINNER PARTY The greatest luxury with which the Unaeans surrounded themselves in their dining-rooms and banquethalls was mirrors. From the exquisitely polished line surface of these mirrors on festal occasions came, obliquely reflected, the image of one participant to another, and the throbbing ingenuousness of the visa-vis conversations in which the Unaeans attained a conspicuous eminence spread itself like a delicate bouquet, spurring each by the reflected glimpses and half-heard tones of his neighbours to explore boldly the treasures his partner's conversation had for him. Cartwright cultivated the reputation of an ostentatious and omni-collective hospitality, for it enabled him to sound and test and understand so many diverse minds and take note of all the variant phases of Unaean opinions. It is therefore as good an occasion as any other for obtaining a glimpse of the manner and customs of Unaea if we observe the guests at one of Cartwright's banquets, the more so because with Laura's turn to seriousness, and the complaisance with which her lightest wishes were treated, we may succeed in eliciting something more than the graceful expression of elegant trifles from her companions. Let us take them at random, these men and women lapped in the arms of Unaean luxury, as they conversed with one another in this scene of light and flowers and radiant beauty. Sylvester Barr, making a low obeisance, handed Julia Castle to the seat opposite him, quoting from an old poem: "From the dying rose its soul has fled And blooms above, divinely red." "Why, my rose isn't a bit withered," said Julia, looking down at the flower in her corsage, pretending not to observe the allusion to the brilliant colouring of her complexion, in which...
Anthe Episode Of Flatland
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Author : Charles Howard Hinton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
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The Annotated Flatland
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2008-07-31
The Annotated Flatland written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with Science categories.
Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to The Land of Three Dimensions, an experience that forever alters his worldview. Like the original, Ian Stewart's commentary takes readers on a strange and wonderful journey. With clarity and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott's numerous Victorian references and touches on such diverse topics as ancient Babylon, Karl Marx, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mt. Everest, H.G. Wells, and phrenology. The Annotated Flatland makes fascinating connections between Flatland and Abbott's era, resulting in a classic to rival Abbott's own, and a book that will inspire and delight curious readers for generations to come.
Flatland
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Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Dimensions categories.
In a two-dimensional universe populated by a hierarchical society of geometric figures, a square is persecuted for attempting to reveal its new knowledge of a third dimension, learned from encounters with a sphere.
The Fourth Dimension Toward A Geometry Of Higher Reality
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Author : Rudy Rucker
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2014-09-17
The Fourth Dimension Toward A Geometry Of Higher Reality written by Rudy Rucker and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-17 with Science categories.
One of the most talented contemporary authors of cutting-edge math and science books conducts a fascinating tour of a higher reality, the Fourth Dimension. Includes problems, puzzles, and 200 drawings. "Informative and mind-dazzling." — Martin Gardner.
The Emergence Of The Fourth Dimension
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Author : Mark Blacklock
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-05
The Emergence Of The Fourth Dimension written by Mark Blacklock and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siècle as a staple of genre fiction and influenced a number of important Modernist writers and artists. Providing a context for thinking of space in dimensional terms, the volume describes an active interplay between self-fashioning disciplines and a key moment in the popularisation of science. It offers new research into spiritualism and the Theosophical Society and studies a series of curious hybrid texts. Examining works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, the volume explores how new theories of the possibilities of time and space influenced fiction writers of the period, and how literature shaped, and was in turn shaped by, the reconfiguration of imaginative space occasioned by the n-dimensional turn. A timely study of the interplay between philosophy, literature, culture, and mathematics, it offers a rich resource for readers interested in nineteenth century literature, Modernist studies, science fiction, and gothic scholarship.
Flatland
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Author : Edwin Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2009-11-13
Flatland written by Edwin Abbott and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-13 with Fiction categories.
Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and faith, and the role of women. A classic of early science fiction, the novel takes place in a world of two dimensions where all the characters are geometric shapes. The narrator, A Square, is a naïve, respectable citizen who is faced with proof of the existence of three dimensions when he is visited by a sphere and is forced to see the limitations of his world. The introduction to this Broadview Edition provides context for the book’s references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. The appendices contain contemporary reviews; extracts from the work of fellow mathematical fantasy writer/mathematician Charles Hinton; Hermann von Helmboltz’s “The Axioms of Geometry” (1870); and autobiographical passages from Abbott’s The Kernel and the Husk (1886).
The Fourth Dimension And Non Euclidean Geometry In Modern Art Revised Edition
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Author : Linda Dalrymple Henderson
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-05-18
The Fourth Dimension And Non Euclidean Geometry In Modern Art Revised Edition written by Linda Dalrymple Henderson and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-18 with Art categories.
The long-awaited new edition of a groundbreaking work on the impact of alternative concepts of space on modern art. In this groundbreaking study, first published in 1983 and unavailable for over a decade, Linda Dalrymple Henderson demonstrates that two concepts of space beyond immediate perception—the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and, most important, a higher, fourth dimension of space—were central to the development of modern art. The possibility of a spatial fourth dimension suggested that our world might be merely a shadow or section of a higher dimensional existence. That iconoclastic idea encouraged radical innovation by a variety of early twentieth-century artists, ranging from French Cubists, Italian Futurists, and Marcel Duchamp, to Max Weber, Kazimir Malevich, and the artists of De Stijl and Surrealism. In an extensive new Reintroduction, Henderson surveys the impact of interest in higher dimensions of space in art and culture from the 1950s to 2000. Although largely eclipsed by relativity theory beginning in the 1920s, the spatial fourth dimension experienced a resurgence during the later 1950s and 1960s. In a remarkable turn of events, it has returned as an important theme in contemporary culture in the wake of the emergence in the 1980s of both string theory in physics (with its ten- or eleven-dimensional universes) and computer graphics. Henderson demonstrates the importance of this new conception of space for figures ranging from Buckminster Fuller, Robert Smithson, and the Park Place Gallery group in the 1960s to Tony Robbin and digital architect Marcos Novak.