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Flatland

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Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

1. The Oxford Magazine (5 November 1884)
2. From The Literary World (14 November 1884)
3. The Exchange with The Athenaeum (November-December 1884)
4. The Architect (15 November 1884)
5. R.Tucker, Nature (27 November 1884)
6. New York Times (23 February 1885)
7. From the New York Tribune (6 March 1885)
8. Advertisement Run by Robert Brothers Publishers in The Literary World (21 March 1885)

Appendix B: Sources and Influences

1. From Benjamin Jowett's Translation of Plato's Republic (1871)
2. From Hermann von Helmholtz, "The Axioms of Geometry" (1870)
3. From Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80)
4. From C.H. Hinton, "What is the Fourth Dimension?" (1884)

Appendix C: Other Works by Abbott

1. From The Kernel and the Husk (1886)
2. From The Spirit on the Water: The Evolution of the Divine From the Human (1897)

Appendix D: The Influence of Flatland

1. From A.T. Schofield, Another World (1905)
2. From C.H. Hinton, The Fourth Dimension (1904)
3. From C.H. Hinton, An Episode of Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension (1907)

Appendix E: Mathematical Background

1. Macmillan's Catalog of Geometry Textbooks (1884)
2. From Euclid's Elements
3. The T.H. Huxley-J.J. Sylvester Debate (1869-77)

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