When you read this book, keep two things in mind. Sources that say he is the brother of Evelyn Abbott (1843 - 1901), who was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece, are in error. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906). More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892), and his article 'The Gospels' in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906). In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. Liberal inclinations of Abbott in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of 26 years. After holding masterships at school of king Edward, Birmingham, and at Clifton college, he succeeded G.F.

He was educated at the city of London school and at college of Saint John, Cambridge, where he as fellow took the highest honors in classics, mathematics, and theology. This English schoolmaster authored of the mathematical satire. People best know British theologian and writer Edwin Abbott Abbott for his imaginative satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884). 'Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination.' - Mathematics Teacher. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions-a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years.

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