In 1884, in Victorian England, a headmaster and Shakespearean scholar named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a classic of scientific popularisation called Flatland.
Written under the pseudonym of 'A. Square', it tells of a world of two dimensions, a flat Euclidean plane that came straight out of the geometry texts of that period. [edit]
In 1884, in Victorian England, a headmaster and Shakespearean scholar named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a classic of scientific popularisation called Flatland. 
