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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
de Abbott, Edwin A
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 048627263X
- ISBN 13
- 9780486272634
- Librería
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Dover Publications Inc, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Eighteen b/w illustrations. Pages toned, else fine. Unabridged and corrected Dover (1992) replication of "Flatland"(first publication: Seeley & Co., Ltd., London, 1884). New Introductory Note by Banesh Hoffman. Preface to the Second and Revised Edition by the Editor, Philip Smith. This masterpiece of science and mathematical fiction is a unique and entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. Edwin Abbott (1838-1926), an English clergyman and Shakespearean scholar, describes the journey of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of two-dimensional Flatland, where women are thin, straight lines and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is a first-rate introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. Imaginative, stimulating. entertaining. 96 pages. 8.25 x 5". 1992, Dover Publications Inc. ISBN10: 048627263X, ISBN13: 9780486272634
Sinopsis
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.
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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 029338
- Título
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
- Autor
- Abbott, Edwin A
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 048627263X
- ISBN 13
- 9780486272634
- Editorial
- Dover Publications Inc
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Palabras clave
- LITERATURE; FICTION, FANTASY; FOURTH DIMENSION;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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