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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 3)

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In Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions—written by Edwin Abbott Abbott—readers are presented with a question. What if the world were flat? Well and truly flat, that is, with figures in place of humans as we would think of them. It takes this question, and pushes it further, asking about the natures of people, and society, as well as angles, lines, and the dimensions of space itself. It takes this question, and uses it to deliver insightfully political satire, and a surprising amount of mathematical education. - Summary by FlamboyantOtter

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Chapters

Chapter 1
PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884. BY THE EDITOR
10:27
Chapter 2
Dedication, and Of the Nature of Flatland
05:57
Chapter 3
Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
06:13
Chapter 4
Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
10:23
Chapter 5
Concerning the Women
14:38
Chapter 6
Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
13:47
Chapter 7
Of Recognition by Sight
13:23
Chapter 8
Concerning Irregular Figures
06:27
Chapter 9
Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
05:26
Chapter 10
Of the Universal Colour Bill
06:58
Chapter 11
Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
08:03
Chapter 12
Concerning our Priests
05:26
Chapter 13
Of the Doctrine of our Priests
09:12
Chapter 14
How I had a Vision of Lineland
08:09
Chapter 15
How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
08:57
Chapter 16
Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
06:10
Chapter 17
How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
13:47
Chapter 18
How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
04:24
Chapter 19
How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
08:17
Chapter 20
How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it
11:58
Chapter 21
How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
05:40
Chapter 22
How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
04:55
Chapter 23
How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
07:42

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 3)

Chapters

PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884. BY THE EDITOR

Dedication, and Of the Nature of Flatland

Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland

Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland

Concerning the Women

Of our Methods of Recognizing one another

Of Recognition by Sight

Concerning Irregular Figures

Of the Ancient Practice of Painting

Of the Universal Colour Bill

Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition

Concerning our Priests

Of the Doctrine of our Priests

How I had a Vision of Lineland

How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland

Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland

How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland

How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds

How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there

How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it

How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision

How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success

How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result