Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Edwin Abbott Abbott, né le 20 décembre 1838 à Marylebone et mort le 12 octobre 1926 (à 87 ans) à Hampstead, est un professeur et théologien anglais. Il est surtout connu comme l'auteur de la satire mathématique et de l'allégorie religieuse, Flatland, qui conte les aventures d'un Carré dont le monde plat est mis en cause par la découverte de l'intrusion d'une Sphère.
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- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926. English scholar, theologian, and writer.)
- With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (Edwin A. Abbott)
- To The Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL And H. C. IN PARTICULAR This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries Of THREE Dimensions Having been previously conversant With ONLY TWO So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher To the Secrets of FOUR FIVE OR EVEN SIX Dimensions Thereby contributing To the Enlargement of THE IMAGINATION And the possible Development Of that most rare and excellent Gift of MODESTY Among the Superior Races Of SOLID HUMANITY
- Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884. By the Editor
- CONTENTS:
- PART I: THIS WORLD
- PART II: OTHER WORLDS
- PART I: THIS WORLD
- "Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
- Section 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
- Section 2. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
- Section 3. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
- Section 4. Concerning the Women
- Section 5. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
- Section 6. Of Recognition by Sight
- Section 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
- Section 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
- Section 9. Of the Universal Colour Bill
- Section 10. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
- Section 11. Concerning our Priests
- Section 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
- PART II: OTHER WORLDS
- "O brave new worlds, that have such people in them!"
- Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland
- Section 14. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
- Section 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
- Section 16. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
- Section 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
- Section 18. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
- Section 19. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
- Section 20. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
- Section 21. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
- Section 22. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
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