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by pbhjpbhj 3310 days ago
See also Flatland (http://amzn.to/2qKFrOh, aff. link) which is a short novel in part about 2D shapes discovering the third dimension.

Edit: Didn't notice it was mentioned at the end of the comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14472395, there's a free version linked from archive.org.
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mabbo 3310 days ago
A favorite novel of mine actually! Hard to believe that it was written in the 1800s, yet still Abbott understood the 4th dimension better than most people today.
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fao_ 3310 days ago
> Hard to believe that it was written in the 1800s

Aside from all the misogyny and the style of writing, you mean?

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mabbo 3308 days ago
It was the 1800s. I'm sure that 150 years from now, everything you and I are writing now will be offensive in ways we don't understand today.
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throwaway135634 3310 days ago
To be fair I think the misogyny was satirical
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fao_ 3310 days ago
You obviously know that it wasn't, otherwise you wouldn't have created that throwaway.
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