Edwin Abbott Abbott

Person · Open Library

Born

20 December 1838

Died

12 October 1926

Works

77

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Active from

1838

Active to

1926

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

125

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1,145

Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland (1884). Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808–1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806–1882). His parents were first cousins. He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edwin+Abbott+Ab

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,419x

2. A Method of Computing the Effectiveness of an Insecticide

   · 1925 · cited 10,833x

3. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,070x

4. The Luminosity Function and Stellar Evolution.

   · 1955 · cited 7,345x

5. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,734x

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Quotes

• “Never shall we apprehend the nature of true divinity nor the true divineness of Jesus of Nazareth, the Carpenter's Son, till we learn to moralize our theology, training ourselves to lay less stress on "Almighty" — an epithet characteristic of the silver age of Hebrew literature and of our Anglican Prayer Book, but never once used as an epithet of God by Him who knew Him as He is. By way of compensation, we must lay far more stress on "Wise" and "Good."”
• “It was in old days, with our learned men, an interesting and oft-investigated question, "What is the origin of light?" and the solution of it has been repeatedly attempted, with no other result than to crowd our lunatic asylums with the would-be solvers. Hence, after fruitless attempts to suppress such investigations indirectly by making them liable to a heavy tax, the Legislature, in comparatively recent times, absolutely prohibited them.”
• “If our highly pointed Triangles of the Soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our Women. For if a Soldier is a wedge, a Woman is a needle; being, so to speak, ALL point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a Female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.”
• “Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.”
• “Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.”
• “It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1838-12-20 ) 20 December 1838, Marylebone , London, England

Died

12 October 1926 (1926-10-12) (aged 87), Hampstead , London, England

Education

City of London School , St John's College, Cambridge

Occupations

Teacher, author

Known for

Flatland

Father

Edwin Abbott

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Wikidata facts

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