Flatland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544621289)

The same thing would happen if you were to treat in the same way a Triangle, or a Square, or any other figure cut out from pasteboard. As soon as you look at it with your eye on the edge of the table, you will find that it ceases to appear to you as a figure, and that it becomes in appearance a straight line. Take for example an equilateral Triangle-who represents with us a Tradesman of the respectable class. Figure 1 represents the Tradesman as you would see him while you were bending over him from above; figures 2 and 3 represent the Tradesman, as you would see him if your eye were close to the level, or all but on the level of the table; and if your eye were quite on the level of the table (and that is how we see him in Flatland) you would see nothing but a straight line. When I was in Spaceland I heard that your sailors have very similar experiences while they traverse your seas and discern some distant island or coast lying on the horizon.

Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
ISBN-10: 1544621280
ISBN-13: 9781544621289
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2017
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 504414 / Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions