Flatland
Edwin A. AbbottFlatland Gönderileri
Flatland kitaplarını, Flatland sözleri ve alıntılarını, Flatland yazarlarını, Flatland yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.
Basic Design Reading List
"Colours are light's suffering and joy."
(Goethe)
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1. D. A. Schön: The reflective Practitioner, Basic Books, 1994
2. W. Lidwell, K. Holden, J. Butler: Universal Principles of Design, Rockport, 2003
3. L. Fichner-Rathus, Foundations of Art and Design, Cengage Learning, 2015
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...my Teacher had told me concerning "light'' and "shade'' and "perspective''; and I did not hesitate to put my difficulties before him.
the exact position - unclearness
See, I am building up a Solid by a multitude of Squares parallel to one another. Now the Solid is complete, being as high as it is long and broad, and we call it a Cube.
I am not a plane Figure, but a Solid. You call me a Circle; but in reality I am not a Circle, but an infinite number of Circles, of size varying from a Point to a Circle of thirteen inches in diameter, one placed on the top of the other. When I cut through your plane as I am now doing, I make in your plane a section which you, very rightly, call a Circle. For even a Sphere - which is my proper name in my own country - if he manifest himself at all to an inhabitant of Flatland - must needs manifest himself as a Circle.
An eye in my inside! An eye in my stomach! Your Lordship jests.
Ah Tanrı hazretleri, sizin şu şakalarınız.
With us, our Priests are Administrators of all Business, Art, and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineering, Education, Statesmanship, Legislature, Morality, Theology; doing nothing themselves, they are the Causes of everything worth doing, that is done by others.
if the cleric takes a shit, he might even call this act god's will (:
mouth to mouth | no sides.
"Distinction of sides is intended by Nature to imply distinction of colours'' - such was the sophism which in those days flew from mouth to mouth, converting whole towns at a time to the new culture.
| aesthetically and artistically, very dull indeed.
I do not, of course, mean that there are not battles, conspiracies, tumults, factions, and all those other phenomena which are supposed to make History interesting; nor would I deny that the strange mixture of the problems of life and the problems of Mathematics, continually inducing conjecture and giving the opportunity of immediate verification, imparts to our existence a zest which you in Spaceland can hardly comprehend.
about the boringness of life