Contemporary Reviews of Flatland


We have made a few very minor editorial changes in these reviews including making (mathematical) word usage current and correcting obvious typos and misspellings. The footnotes are from the original articles

  1. Oxford Magazine (November 5, 1884), p. 387
  2. The Academy (November 8, 1884), p. 302.
  3. The Literary World (November 14, 1884), pp. 389--390.
  4. The Architect (Nov. 15, 1884), pp. 326--327.
  5. The Athenaeum No. 2977 (November 15, 1884), p. 622.
  6. The Athenaeum No. 2978 (November 22, 1884), p. 660.
  7. The Athenaeum No. 2980 (December 6, 1884), p. 733.
  8. Nature (November 27, 1884), pp. 76--77.
  9. Knowledge 6 (November 28, 1884), p. 494.
  10. The Spectator (November 29, 1884), pp. 1583--1584.
  11. Cambridge Review 6(1884/1885), pp. lxxi--lxxii.
  12. American 9:237 (February 21, 1885), p. 312.
  13. New York Times (February 23, 1885), p. 3.
  14. New York Tribune (March 6, 1885), p. 6.
  15. The Literary World (March 21, 1885), p. 93.
  16. The Literary News (March 1885), p. 85.
  17. The Literary News (April 1885), p. 123.
  18. Science (February 27, 1885), p. 184.
  19. Science (April 3, 1885), pp. 265--266.
  20. The Critic (April 18, 1885), p. 18.
  21. Lippincott's Magazine (May 1885), p. 528.
  22. City of London School Magazine 8 (December 1885), 217--221.
  23. Nature (February 12, 1920), p. 629.
  24. New Statesman 27 (July 10, 1926), p. 364
  25. Saturday Review of Literature (October 30, 1926), p. 254.
  26. Boston Transcript (October 30, 1926), p. 5. (State Library of Mass.)
  27. Outlook (December 15, 1926), p. 508
  28. Practical Anthropology 5:2 (1958), p. 90.
  29. The Freeman ?
  30. Miscellaneous Quotations on Flatland