Talk:Flatland (second edition)

In the preface section, it says "to apologize forcertain errors and misprints", no space between the words "for" and "certain." Is this a transcription error, or in the original text? --Zandperl 02:21, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Changed. 68.39.174.238 04:03, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Diagrams
It would be nice to get some illustrating diagrams and such for some of the stuff in here. I remember thinking that would help a lot when I read it a while back. I Might be able to do some but it would probably not be for a while. Also, is there any problem with doing this, I don't think there would be since it's PD but I'm not sure. --AndrewBuck 23:55, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I added all the graphics from the book that were original, so far as I could tell. Somebody please let me know if I've breached copyright in some way—but since Abbott illustrated it, and he's been dead more than 70 years, I think we're okay. Atchius 20:37, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Correction needed?
I beleieve one of the links to one of the chapters in incorrect. The link to section 19 is as follows:

Section 19: How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it

"Shewed"....I'm pretty sure that's not correct, but I'm not going to change it unless someone agrees with me. Seldon1 19:24, 23 December 2006 (UTC)


 * It's correct. Some weird British way of talking, no doubt. Atchius 20:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It's an archaic spelling of the word "showed", although it's pronounced identically. You'll find a mixture of the two in texts of this sort of age, both in British English and American English. It definitely should not be pronounced "shoed".

Footnotery
The footnotes definitely belong in the chapters they are referred to in. 68.39.174.238 16:28, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Original edition djvu file available
Hi! A Djvu file of the original edition is available here. It can be used for a Transcription Projects. Is it useful to signal it?- --Zyephyrus (talk) 12:26, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Uploaded and being proofread, Index:Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions (1884).djvu. Cygnis insignis (talk) 11:56, 1 April 2010 (UTC)