Geometry Unfolded: 5 Classic Works on the Principles of Geometry
Classic Essays on Space, Logic, the Fourth Dimension, and Mathematical ImaginationBy Claude Fayette Bragdon, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Charles Howard Hinton, Bernhard Marks, Bertrand Russell
Length25h 23m
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Geometry Unfolded gathers five classic meditations on geometric principle, imagination, and philosophical consequence. Moving from lucid exposition and speculative fiction to mathematical essay, visual theory, and foundational critique, the volume demonstrates how geometry has served not merely as a technical discipline but as a language for thinking about space, perception, order, and possibility. Its most memorable passages turn unfamiliar dimensions and abstract relations into imaginative encounters, while its analytic works ask what grounds geometric knowledge itself. The contributors represent a remarkable cross-section of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century intellectual culture. Claude Fayette Bragdon brings an architect's and artist's concern with form; Edwin Abbott Abbott and Charles Howard Hinton join literary invention to questions of dimensional perception; Bernhard Marks extends the collection's pedagogical and conceptual range; and Bertrand Russell situates geometry within the modern re-examination of logic, mathematics, and philosophical foundations. Together, these voices illuminate the period's encounter with non-Euclidean thought, higher-dimensional speculation, and the changing status of scientific certainty. Recommended for students of mathematics, philosophy, architecture, literary studies, and intellectual history, this anthology offers an unusually rich route into geometry's cultural life. Readers will find both accessible wonder and rigorous inquiry, as each work reframes the others and invites sustained reflection on how humans imagine space.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length25 hrs 23 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Flatland
2Flatland
3Section 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
4Section 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
5Section 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
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6A New Era of Thought
7A New Era of Thought
8PREFACE.
9PART II. (pt. 1)
10PART II. (pt. 2)
11APPENDICES.
12Four-Dimensional Vistas
13Four-Dimensional Vistas
14FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VISTAS
15V CURVED TIME
16IX THE MYSTICS
17Marks' First Lessons in Geometry
18Marks' first lessons in geometry
19PREFACE.
20TO THE PROFESSIONAL READER.
21PART FIRST.
22PART SECOND. AXIOMS AND THEOREMS.
23APPENDIX.
24An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry
25An essay on the foundations of geometry
26PREFACE.
27INTRODUCTION. OUR PROBLEM DEFINED BY ITS RELATIONS TO LOGIC, PSYCHOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS.
28CHAPTER II. CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF SOME PREVIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES OF GEOMETRY. (pt. 1)
29CHAPTER II. CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF SOME PREVIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES OF GEOMETRY. (pt. 2)
30CHAPTER III. (pt. 1)
31CHAPTER III. (pt. 2)
32CHAPTER IV. PHILOSOPHICAL CONSEQUENCES.
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