By B. W. Higman
Higman seems on the ways in which people have perceived the wildlife round them, relocating from Flat Earth theories to summary geometric strategies to the flatness challenge of recent cosmology. alongside the way in which he exhibits that we've got concurrently sought flatness in our daily lives and likewise disparaged it as a featureless, empty, and monotonous caliber. He discusses the methods flatness figures as a metaphor for these issues or those people who are dull, uninteresting, or missing strength or idea, and he exhibits how the development of flat surfaces has contributed to a degradation of visible variety. while, he additionally indicates how now we have pursued flatness as an engineering excellent and the way we now have used it conceptually in artwork, song, and literature.
Written with wit and knowledge, and wonderfully illustrated all through, this e-book will attract all people who find themselves drawn to the topography of the trendy global, to an individual who has ever marveled on the believe of its soft surfaces or felt oppressed by means of the tyranny of its featurelessness.
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