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Flatland
Chapitres (26)
- Dedication 0:00
- Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884 0:43
- Part I: This World 9:51
- I: Of the Nature of Flatland 10:00
- II: Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland 14:36
- III: Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland 19:59
- IV: Concerning the Women 27:52
- V: Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another 39:56
- VI: Of Recognition by Sight 51:59
- VII: Concerning Irregular Figures 1:04:07
- VIII: Of the Ancient Practice of Painting 1:12:40
- IX: Of the Universal Colour Bill 1:19:36
- X: Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition 1:28:18
- XI: Concerning Our Priests 1:38:22
- XII: Of the Doctrine of Our Priests 1:45:11
- Part II: Other Worlds 1:57:04
- XIII: How I Had a Vision of Lineland 1:57:14
- XIV: How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland 2:08:18
- XV: Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland 2:21:40
- XVI: How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland 2:29:29
- XVII: How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds 2:48:59
- XVIII: How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There 2:55:25
- XIX: How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It 3:07:18
- XX: How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision 3:25:34
- XXI: How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success 3:33:38
- XXII: How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by Other Means, and of the Result 3:40:17
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Flatland is uniquely both a social critique and a primer on multi-dimensional geometry. Written in two parts in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott, an English mathematician and theologian, it tells the story of a square living in Flatland: a two-dimensional realm. After a dream of a restrictive one-dimensional existence and the difficulties this poses, he is visited by a sphere from a three-dimensional space who wishes to enlighten him into the ways of “Upward, yet not Northward.”
Edwin A. Abbott wrote other theological fiction and non-fiction (including several biographies), but he is best remembered for Flatland. While it was mostly forgotten after publication, it received a revived interest from the 1960s onwards, and has more recently had several sequels and film adaptations. This edition of Flatland is based on the second published edition and includes its preface, which in part attempts to address some of the contemporary accusations of misogyny.