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	Edwin Abbott Abbott
		Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 - 1926), English schoolmaster[?] and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland.
		Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books.
		His brother, Evelyn Abbott (1843 - 1901), was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ed/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott.html (244 words)

	Edwin Abbott Abbott - LoveToKnow 1911
		EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT (1838-), English schoolmaster and theologian, was born on the 20th of December 1838.
		Dr Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books.
		His brother, Evelyn Abbott (1843-1901), was a well-known tutor of Balliol, Oxford, and author of a scholarly History of Greece.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Edwin_Abbott_Abbott (176 words)

	Edwin Abbott Abbott Summary
		Abbott was a private man, and little is known of his life.
		In contrast, Abbott was comfortable with both his membership in the Church of England and a modern scientific worldview, and his Philomythus, an Antidote against Credulity: A Discussion of Cardinal Newman's Essay on Ecclesiastical Miracles (1891) is one of several responses to the more-traditional beliefs of Newman and others.
		Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 – 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland (1884).
	www.bookrags.com /Edwin_Abbott_Abbott (1678 words)

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		Edwin Abbott Abbott was not the first person to posit a two-dimensional universe inhabited by flat beings, but he was the first to explore what it would mean for such individuals to interact with phenomena from a dimension higher than their own.
		Abbott managed to avoid all these pitfalls even though his training and the majority of his writings were in the fields of classics, theology and history.
		Abbott specifically identifies Candler as 'the H.C. to whom Flatland wasdedicated' in the introduction to one of his theology volumes written just after Candler died in 1916, and the first edition in the Trinity College library, donated by one of Candler's grandsons, is inscribed simply 'To H.C., in particular'.
	www.geom.uiuc.edu /~banchoff/ISR/ISR.html (5390 words)

	Abbott biography
		Edwin Abbott was headmaster of the Philological School at Marylebone.
		Abbott was educated at the City of London School which had gained a fine reputation under Dr G F W Mortimer who was headmaster throughout the years during which he studied there.
		Abbott died of influenza at his home, Wellside, Well Walk in Hampstead, and was buried in Hampstead cemetery.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Abbott.html (1117 words)

	Pywrit.com - Edwin A Abbott Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 - 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland (1884).
		Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808 - 1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806 - 1882).
		He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honors in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college.
	www.pywrit.com /ebooks/sfa_b/EdwinAAbbott/EdwinAAbbottBio.htm (383 words)

	Amazon.de: Flatland: English Books: Edwin A. Abbott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Abbott shows that math is a field where anyone with an interest has a chance to succeed just as the main character stumbles upon the meaning of dimensions from thoughts from his grandson.
		According to Abbott himself, his main goal in the writing of Flatland was to produce a kind of "satire of manners" on Victorian England.
		Abbott's assertion is backed up by the structure of the novel, certainly; the first hundred pages of this small (hundred fifty page) tome are devoted to the customs and mores of Flatland.
	www.amazon.de /Flatland-Edwin-Abbott/dp/0875231993 (1926 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Abbott concentrates much in the novel on illuminating the social structures and conventions of flatland, partly dictated by the lack of a third dimension, yet peculiarly similar to the society of Abbott's time.
		Abbott notes the social attitudes of his time, and brings them to flatland in an exaggerated form - I'm sure that more than a few distinguished contemporaries felt the sting of that satire....
		The idea of the story is that this main character, the square, gets unwittingly initiated to the wonders of three dimensions, and then tries in vain to explain it all to the other occupants of Flatland.
	www.epinions.com /content_9729117828 (513 words)

	Abbott, Edwin Abbott - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Abbott, Edwin Abbott 1838-1926, English clergyman and author, b.
		He wrote several theological works and a biography (1885) of Francis Bacon, but he is best known for his standard Shakespearian Grammar (1870) and the pseudonymously written Flatland (by A Square, 1884, 6th ed.
		Edwin Elmer dies at 91; was lawyer and city advocate, as well as avid gardener.(NEWS)(Obituary)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-abbott-edw.html (244 words)

	RObert Edwin Abbott, 1906-1990 - Virginia Conference United Methodist Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Abbott remained with the railroad until, at a New Year's Eve Watch Night Service, he received and answered God's call to become a minister of the Gospel.
		Abbott was married to Miss Louise Tredway, of a family long associated with the
		Abbott became a resident of the Hermitage a few weeks later.
	www.vaumc.org /index.cfm/fa/content.view/menuID/1445.htm (480 words)

	village voice > arts > Being Edwin Abbott by Dennis Lim
		Abbott illustrates the challenges that a lower-dimensional being would face in attempting to visualize our world—and in so doing, invites us to imagine the corresponding situation in three dimensions and beyond.
		In a 1990 article, Banchoff links Flatland with Abbott's theological novels, Philochristus and Onesimus, which both build toward epiphanous encounters (with Christ and Saint Paul, respectively) and end with the heroes' "frustration and eventual persecution." Abbott's interdimensional jeu d'esprit is both spiritual allegory and epistemological inquiry.
		Abbott had little in common with Victorian spiritualism, a shared interest in the fourth dimension notwithstanding.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0203/edlim.php (1808 words)

	Amazon.ca: Signet Classics Flatland: Books: Edwin Abbott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In order to understand this twenty-two chapter book (first published in the mid-1880s) by Edwin A. Abbot (1838 to 1926), you have to understand what is meant by the word "dimension," a word in the book's subtitle "A Romance of Many Dimensions." A dimension is any measureable distance such as length or width.
		Edwin Abbott (1838-1926) was a clergyman and a math geek.
		Abbott offers his allegory of physical and conceptual limits with an economy of word and thought that is nothing less than extraordinary.
	www.amazon.ca /Signet-Classics-Flatland-Edwin-Abbott/dp/0451529766 (2402 words)

	Math Awareness Month 2000: Edwin A. Abbott (People/Abbott)
		After 116 years, Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland is still the best introduction to the method of analogy used by virtually all mathematicians and physicists when describing the fourth dimension.
		Many authors cite Edwin Abbott Abbott as one of their first inspirations in the study of abstract mathematics, particularly in higher dimensions.
		Mathematics Awareness Month is sponsored each year by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics to recognize the importance of mathematics through written materials and an accompanying poster that highlight mathematical developments and applications in a particular area.
	www.mathaware.org /mam/00/master/people/abbott/index.html (611 words)

	Time Travel in Flatland? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Flatland; a romance of many dimensions is a short novel by Edwin Abbott published in London in 1884.
		Abbott described his interactions with beings who live in a flat plane of two spatial dimensions, and showed how we might perceive the existence of higher dimensions.
		Abbott wrote Flatland before the unified picture of space and time emerged in early 20th century mathematics and physics.
	www.theory.caltech.edu /people/patricia/lctoc.html (237 words)

	Powell's Books - Flatland, Revised ((5TH)83 Edition) by Edwin A. Abbott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) has been ranked as one of the leading scholars and theologians of the Victorian era.
		He received highest honors in mathematics, classics, and theology at St. John's College, Cambridge, and in 1862 began a brilliant career, during which he served as schoolmaster of some of England's outstanding schools.
		Although Flatland, a literary jeu d'esprit, has given pleasure to thousands of readers over many generations, Abbott is best known for his scholarly works, especially his Shakespearian Grammar and his life of Francis Bacon, and for a number of theological discussions.
	www.powells.com /biblio/65-0064635732-2 (219 words)

	The Irony of Flatland Essay by Edwin Abbott \| Student Essays
		Summary: 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.
		Every person in his or her respective reality is so firmly woven into the system of beliefs of their society that they cannot fathom otherwise.
		It is the ability to let that system go that Edwin Abbott so cleverly illustrates for us, creating not only a world where perspective is the heart of life, but where it's importance determines everything from social status to what gender a person is.
	www.bookrags.com /essay-2004/5/23/12130/2481 (194 words)

	Flatland, by E. A. Abbott, 1884
		The usual introductions make it clear that Abbott intended a social satire of Victorian England's society, and an expression of his efforts to advance the cause of education for women and classes lower than the English aristocracy.
		Abbott was a successful theologian, classics scholar, and Shakespeare expert (which explains the Shakespearean references in the frontispiece and several quotations in this book), as well as proficient in mathematics.
		Cogitators of the fourth dimension should be aware that Abbott is not talking about TIME.
	www.eldritchpress.org /eaa/FL.HTM (449 words)

	AllRefer.com - Edwin Abbott Abbott (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Edwin Abbott Abbott (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Edwin Abbott Abbott 1838–1926, English clergyman and author, b.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Edwin Abbott Abbott
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Abbott-Edw.html (150 words)

	Powell's Books - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As in real life, such desires are met with sometimes-violent opposition from society's leaders in the name of maintaining the status quo.
		Victorian clergyman and Shakespearean scholar Edwin Abbott penned this mathematical allegory about the dawn of reason seemingly in response to the puritanical environment in which he lived.
		Touching on themes of humanity's insatiable quest for truth, authority's tendency to squash radical ideas born from this quest, and the necessity of curiosity, Flatland is an odd and charming little book whose impact far surpasses its concise prose.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1591022967-1 (344 words)

	Pennsylvania Tumescent Liposuction Surgeon Philadelphia, Dr. Edwin W. Abbott
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	www.bodysculpturedr.com /abbott.htm (236 words)

	Flatland: A romance of many dimensions
		Edwin A. Abbott's classic tale of interdimensional experience.
		Text by Edwin A. Abbott, 1884; copyright expired.
		Preface to the second and revised edition, 1884.
	www.alcyone.com /max/lit/flatland (150 words)

	Books by Edwin Abbott Abbott - Biography and Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Books by Edwin Abbott Abbott - Biography and Bibliography
		This annotated edition of Abbott's 1884 geometry-inspired literary classic explores Abbott's life, his circle of famous friends that included H. Wells and George Eliot, and the Victorian conventions that influenced the plot.
		A comic and philosophic tale told by one of its citizens, FLATLAND challenges notions of reality by walking readers through a two-dimensional life, in which everyone and everything is flat.
	www.biblio.com /author_biographies/3259383/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott.html (146 words)

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		Edwin Abbott was a London-born clergyman and mathematician who is best known for his work
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	1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abbott, Edwin Arrott - Wikisource
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		BBOTT (1838-), English schoolmaster and theologian, was born on the 20th of December 1838.
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	Textbooks by Edwin A Abbott - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Textbooks by Edwin A Abbott - Direct Textbook
		The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
		Johannine Vocabulary: A Comparison Of The Words Of The Fourth Gospel With Those Of The Three by Edwin A. Abbott
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