![]() ![]() ![]() He would simply read these as thirty-two or thirty-three. My biggest critique of the narration is that Alan Munro would occasionally stumble when presented with mathematical expressions like 3² (three to the second power) 3³ (three to the third power). ![]() In someways, that makes Flatland as relevant, revolutionary and prophetic a piece today as it was when published in 1884. Abbott wrote the novella Flatland during a period of women's suffrage and a rigid class-based hierarchy. Still, Abbott plays a very significant role in the development of science fiction as a reasonable way to address and criticize current social problems. As a satire, however, while it loosely follows a very Swiftian formulation (Flatland = England Lineland = Lilliput Spaceland = Brobdingnag), it isn't as well developed as Gulliver's Travels. I give Abbott props for prophetically working out some of the fundamentals of the fourth dimension and dimensional progression 30 years prior to Einstein's general theory of relativity. ![]()
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