![]() ![]() Square - describes life in Flatland in the second, he undergoes a revelatory experience on the eve of the third millennium. Flatland was the product of a theologian rather than a schoolmaster. But significantly, and despite its zealous maths teacher following, he wrote no other science books at all. ![]() He became headmaster at the City of London School at 26 and remained there for 25 years, and it was towards the end of this period that he wrote Flatland. Flatland is fascinating because it leaves the reader with a real sense of the limitations of human cognition and the need for intellectual humility.Ībbott was a prolific writer who produced over 40 books during his 60-year writing career, including a guide to Shakespearean grammar and numerous theological texts. Yet for a contemporary reader, and originally for the author as well, the gimmickry and trigonometric stuntwork are not really the heart of the book. The book is a kind of fantasy yarn which has subsequently bedevilled cocktail party geometry and spawned a whole genre in the process. Flatland (1884) is the story of a two-dimensional world and one of its citizens, who has a revelatory experience and comes to understand something of his spatial restriction. Just over a hundred years ago, the quaintly named Reverend Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a slim volume that has captured a diverse readership ever since. ![]()
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