Flatland
About This Novel
Flatland is divided into two parts: front and back. In the first part, the world of Flatland is described by a square; while the second part talks about the zero-dimensional and one-dimensional worlds, the three-dimensional space country that is difficult for Flatlanders to understand, and briefly mentions the analogy and imagination of four-dimensional space. Abbott uses the "square", a fictional two-dimensional space in the book, to express his bitter satire on the class system of the Victorian era, and the longer-term contribution of this novel is the examination of dimensions. In 1884, the second industrial revolution had not yet been completed, and modern physics had not yet even a shadow. Abbott was already imagining high-dimensional space in "Flatland". Even now that people have proposed that the microscopic world may be composed of ten or higher dimensions, "Flatland" is still highly praised and cited as an "enlightenment book" on multi-dimensional space.
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Official(8)Scraped 8d ago
A very interesting and special short science fiction novel
So interesting. It is highly imaginative and describes phenomena and properties in basic dimensions. In addition to the science fiction elements themselves, it also accurately reflects and satirizes contemporary social problems, such as cognition, discrimination, religion, etc. Is there a universe with more than three dimensions? If so, what perspective and cognition do we use to understand and accept it? Or are we just completely opposed and angry? Awesome!
"In our Flat Country, fog is a gift from God, and its importance is almost as important as air. In Flat Country, fog is the assistant of art, and fog is the source of science."
Big imagination
It's a bit ahead of its time, and it's impossible to imagine three dimensions in two dimensions. If human beings are considered three-dimensional, it is indeed difficult to imagine what it is like to be at a higher latitude.
A very nice closed novel
Like Neuromancer, you would never imagine that this was a 19th-century book.
nice
Interesting and thought-provoking, suspected to be the author's autobiography
Looking at the objects that make up our lives using floor plans, it seems that every sentence makes sense, and it does. So this time our reading perspective has also changed to a certain extent.
Why do we call our world a flat country? In the first part, the author introduces our world from a square perspective. Does he have any explanation for the current situation?
The author explained to us at the very beginning why our world is called Flatland. Now it seems that there is indeed a certain basis for it, and it seems quite reasonable.
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Official(8)Scraped 8d ago
A very interesting and special short science fiction novel
So interesting. It is highly imaginative and describes phenomena and properties in basic dimensions. In addition to the science fiction elements themselves, it also accurately reflects and satirizes contemporary social problems, such as cognition, discrimination, religion, etc. Is there a universe with more than three dimensions? If so, what perspective and cognition do we use to understand and accept it? Or are we just completely opposed and angry? Awesome!
"In our Flat Country, fog is a gift from God, and its importance is almost as important as air. In Flat Country, fog is the assistant of art, and fog is the source of science."
Big imagination
It's a bit ahead of its time, and it's impossible to imagine three dimensions in two dimensions. If human beings are considered three-dimensional, it is indeed difficult to imagine what it is like to be at a higher latitude.
A very nice closed novel
Like Neuromancer, you would never imagine that this was a 19th-century book.
nice
Interesting and thought-provoking, suspected to be the author's autobiography
Looking at the objects that make up our lives using floor plans, it seems that every sentence makes sense, and it does. So this time our reading perspective has also changed to a certain extent.
Why do we call our world a flat country? In the first part, the author introduces our world from a square perspective. Does he have any explanation for the current situation?
The author explained to us at the very beginning why our world is called Flatland. Now it seems that there is indeed a certain basis for it, and it seems quite reasonable.
