Flatland (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved 99% of The Black Jackal’s request to combine 117 books, including Flatland, 2 weeks ago. (show what wasn’t approved) (hide what wasn’t approved)

The Black Jackal submitted a request to combine 117 books, including Flatland, 2 weeks ago.

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Flatland Saturday, October 31 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Fruitbat’s request to change the contributors of Flatland Tuesday, September 29 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Ian Stewart: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray changed the title of Flatland Tuesday, September 29 2009.

Fruitbat edited the contributors of Flatland Sunday, September 13 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Ian Stewart: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Flatland Saturday, August 29 2009.

• Edited: A story with very shallow charactersLife as a dot, life it linear. Life as a circle, the world is flat. Life in 3d is fun, but what's next?

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Flatland Saturday, August 29 2009.

• I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers,Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his father's ghost, who are privileged to live in Space.is now speaking from under the stage.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Flatland Saturday, August 29 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ian Stewart: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the description of Flatland Friday, July 31 2009.

• How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful "romance of many dimensions" explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work of science fiction brilliantly succeeds in enlarging all readers' imaginations beyond the limits of their "respective dimensional prejudices." This new edition begins with an introduction by Rosemary Jann that illuminates the social and intellectual context that produced the work and explains its relationship to the theological issues central to Abbott's career. It also provides the most extensive discussion to date of the class and gender issues raised by the text and of the debates over the limits of scientific and mathematical knowledge in which it participated. Flatlands unique combination of astute social, philosophical, and mathematical observations with wit and humor can be read at many different levels, and will prove especially enjoyable to readers of Victorian literature and philosophy.