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Edwin A. Abbott was a man of many qualities. As a cleric, a biblical and literary scholar, and an author, he established a minor but nonetheless significant place in Victorian literature. While many scholars remember Abbott for his well-known debate with...

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Edwin Abbott wrote a book of only two dimensions-an overview of squamate souls in platter realms. An envoy guides us through their squat constraints on institutions-goals and base illusions stretching to the rim of page and space. Floating boneless,...

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In the following essay, Smith, Berkove, and Baker explore Abbott's interest in the writings of John Henry Newman and Bishop Joseph Butler and their theories of analogical and probabilistic reasoning.

In the following essay, Jann argues that Abbott addresses in Flatland the Victorian conflict between spirit and intellect and therefore the contemporary debate over the role of hypothesis in scientific study.

In the following essay, Gilbert examines the themes of novelty and progress in Flatland.

This is a short essay discussing the irony of "Flatland," by Edwin A. Abbott, and about the "sight conundrum", in which seeing is not always believing.

In the book Flatland, the two-dimensional place that Abbot portrayed is populated by people who are geometrical figures in a sort of caste system based on geometric shape. Abbot's geometric habitat is not that different from that in our own society.