Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Edwin Abbott Abbott: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
- The Oxford Magazine (5 November 1884)
- From The Literary World (14 November 1884)
- The Exchange with The Athenaeum (November-December 1884)
- The Architect (15 November 1884)
- R.Tucker, Nature (27 November 1884)
- New York Times (23 February 1885)
- From the New York Tribune (6 March 1885)
- Advertisement Run by Robert Brothers Publishers in The Literary World (21 March 1885)
Appendix B: Sources and Influences
- From Benjamin Jowett’s Translation of Plato’s Republic (1871)
- From Hermann von Helmholtz, “The Axioms of Geometry” (1870)
- From Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80)
- From C.H. Hinton, “What is the Fourth Dimension?” (1884)
Appendix C: Other Works by Abbott
- From The Kernel and the Husk (1886)
- From The Spirit on the Water:The Evolution of the Divine From the Human (1897)
Appendix D: The Influence of Flatland
- From A.T. Schofield, Another World (1905)
- From C.H. Hinton, The Fourth Dimension (1904)
- From C.H. Hinton, An Episode of Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension (1907)
Appendix E: Mathematical Background
- Macmillan’s Catalog of Geometry Textbooks (1884)
- From Euclid’s Elements
- The T.H. Huxley–J.J. Sylvester Debate (1869-77)
Works Cited and Recommended Reading