{"product_id":"flatland-a-romance-of-many-dimensions-paperback-1","title":"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years--including contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. In this mind-expanding satire, \u003cem\u003eFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions \u003c\/em\u003edescribes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to Flatland before describing his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough it did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, \u003cem\u003eFlatland\u003c\/em\u003e gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes the author's original illustrations and a short biography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101594783967,"sku":"9781733561624","price":9.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MVZ2QVp1ejg4bTB4NS9XN0ZKeHovUT09.webp?v=1781071792","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/flatland-a-romance-of-many-dimensions-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}