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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Penguin Classics)
de Edwin A. Abbott
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Bien
- ISBN 10
- 014043531X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140435313
- Librería
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Penguin Classics, 1998. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Penguin Classics, 1998.Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition, with illustrations by the author and Introduction by Alan Lightman. Eighteen b/w illustrations. First published by Seeley & Co., Ltd., London, 1884. Wrappers clean, wear around edges, small front corner creases, pages toned, completely clean and unmarked. 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. 118 pages. 7.75 x 5". 1998, Penguin Classics.
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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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 030024
- Título
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Penguin Classics)
- Autor
- Edwin A. Abbott
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 014043531X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140435313
- Editorial
- Penguin Classics
- Lugar de publicación
- N.y
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Palabras clave
- FANTASY, FICTION; FOURTH DIMENSION;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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