Flatland: A Parable of Spiritual Dimensions (Oneworld Spiritual Classics) - Softcover

Abbott, Edwin A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851680861 ISBN 13: 9781851680863

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 1994

Synopsis

An experiment in expanding our ways of thinking and experiencing the world, this allegorical tale explores the limitations of human perceptions of reality. The author advocates the need for openness and humility in pursuit of spiritual growth and offers profound insights into the inner world of the spiritual dimension.

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About the Author

Fifty Years in the Flatland
2012 will mark the 50th anniversary in print with Dover of one of the most significant and influential books of the past century and a half. The mathematical, satirical, and religious allegory Flatland by a little-known but immensely prolific Victorian English schoolmaster and theologian Edwin Abbott Abbott, was first published anonymously in England in 1884 — Abbott wrote it under the name "A Square." The unique geometrical romance which is Flatland posited a world and its inhabitants that exist in only two dimensions and forces the reader captivated by the originality of this central idea to think deeply about the meaning of such a world. Generations of readers and students swept into the romance and fascination of geometry and other branches of mathematics and philosophy owe their introduction to this world to Flatland, which continues to entertain and stimulate new readers today, still going strong 126 years after the first edition was launched. Abbott revised the text somewhat for a second edition published just a few months after the first. Dover's 1952 edition was the first American reprinting of the amended second English edition and was published with a new Introduction by physicist Banesh Hoffmann.
From the Book:
"I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows — only hard and with luminous edges — and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said 'my universe': but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things."

Edition details

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1851680861
• ISBN 13: 9781851680863
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160