{"product_id":"2940014042475","title":"Flatland","description":"PART 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHIS WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION 1  Of the Nature of Flatland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its\u003cbr\u003enature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in\u003cbr\u003eSpace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles,\u003cbr\u003eSquares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining\u003cbr\u003efixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but\u003cbr\u003ewithout the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like\u003cbr\u003eshadows--only hard with luminous edges--and you will then have a pretty\u003cbr\u003ecorrect notion of my country and countrymen.  Alas, a few years ago, I\u003cbr\u003eshould have said \"my universe:\"  but now my mind has been opened to\u003cbr\u003ehigher views of things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn such a country, you will perceive at once that it is impossible that\u003cbr\u003ethere should be anything of what you call a \"solid\" kind; but I dare\u003cbr\u003esay you will suppose that we could at least distinguish by sight the\u003cbr\u003eTriangles, Squares, and other figures, moving about as I have described\u003cbr\u003ethem.  On the contrary, we could see nothing of the kind, not at least\u003cbr\u003eso as to distinguish one figure from another.  Nothing was visible, nor\u003cbr\u003ecould be visible, to us, except Straight Lines; and the necessity of\u003cbr\u003ethis I will speedily demonstrate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlace a penny on the middle of one of your tables in Space; and leaning\u003cbr\u003eover it, look down upon it.  It will appear a circle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut now, drawing back to the edge of the table, gradually lower your\u003cbr\u003eeye (thus bringing yourself more and more into the condition of the\u003cbr\u003einhabitants of Flatland), and you will find the penny becoming more and\u003cbr\u003emore oval to your view, and at last when you have placed your eye\u003cbr\u003eexactly on the edge of the table (so that you are, as it were, actually\u003cbr\u003ea Flatlander) the penny will then have ceased to appear oval at all,\u003cbr\u003eand will have become, so far as you can see, a straight line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe same thing would happen if you were to treat in the same way a\u003cbr\u003eTriangle, or a Square, or any other figure cut out from pasteboard.  As\u003cbr\u003esoon as you look at it with your eye on the edge of the table, you will\u003cbr\u003efind that it ceases to appear to you as a figure, and that it becomes\u003cbr\u003ein appearance a straight line.  Take for example an equilateral\u003cbr\u003eTriangle--who represents with us a Tradesman of the respectable class.\u003cbr\u003eFigure 1 represents the Tradesman as you would see him while you were\u003cbr\u003ebending over him from above; figures 2 and 3 represent the Tradesman,\u003cbr\u003eas you would see him if your eye were close to the level, or all but on\u003cbr\u003ethe level of the table; and if your eye were quite on the level of the\u003cbr\u003etable (and that is how we see him in Flatland) you would see nothing\u003cbr\u003ebut a straight line.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145858498800,"sku":"2940014042475","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014042475_p0.jpg?v=1763599524","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014042475","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}