Author: Ian Stewart
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-07-31
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0786721839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to The Land of Three Dimensions, an experience that forever alters his worldview. Like the original, Ian Stewart's commentary takes readers on a strange and wonderful journey. With clarity and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott's numerous Victorian references and touches on such diverse topics as ancient Babylon, Karl Marx, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mt. Everest, H.G. Wells, and phrenology. The Annotated Flatland makes fascinating connections between Flatland and Abbott's era, resulting in a classic to rival Abbott's own, and a book that will inspire and delight curious readers for generations to come.
Author: Edwin A. Abbott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 831
ISBN-13: 110741847X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1917, this book forms the final section of a 5 volume work on the four canonical gospels and the relationship between them.
Author: William Rainey Harper
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 750
ISBN-13:
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Author: Edwin Abbott
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2009-11-13
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781770481299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and faith, and the role of women. A classic of early science fiction, the novel takes place in a world of two dimensions where all the characters are geometric shapes. The narrator, A Square, is a naïve, respectable citizen who is faced with proof of the existence of three dimensions when he is visited by a sphere and is forced to see the limitations of his world. The introduction to this Broadview Edition provides context for the book’s references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. The appendices contain contemporary reviews; extracts from the work of fellow mathematical fantasy writer/mathematician Charles Hinton; Hermann von Helmboltz’s “The Axioms of Geometry” (1870); and autobiographical passages from Abbott’s The Kernel and the Husk (1886).
Author: Fotini Hadjittofi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 3110696231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Classicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek Christian poetry. The contributions collected here ask how Christian poets engage with (and are conscious of) the double reliance of their poetry on two separate systems: on the one hand, the classical poetic models and, on the other, the various genres and sub-genres of Christian prose. Keeping in mind the different settings of the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West, the contributions seek to understand the impact of historical setting on genre, the influence of the paideia shared by authors and audiences, and the continued relevance of traditional categories of literary genre. While our immediate focus is genre, most of the contributions also engage with the ideological ramifications of the transposition of Christian themes into classicizing literature. This volume offers important and original case studies on the reception and appropriation of the classical past and its literary forms by Christian poetry.
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Publisher:
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13:
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Author: Arthur Cayley Headlam (Bishop of Gloucester)
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13:
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