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A New Era of Thought
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214 pages, Paperback
First published February 16, 2010
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Charles Howard Hinton
35 books12 followersCharles Howard Hinton was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled Scientific Romances. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension. He is known for coining the word "tesseract" and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions.
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May 18, 2025
A collected series of essays, short stories and how-to's.
Charles Hinton was the first public intellectual to write about higher dimensions with mathematical precision. Being primarily a professor of math, he was an interesting character for the 1800s. Here's a quote from wikipedia:
"His father James Hinton was a radical advocate of polygamous relationships,[7] and according to Charles' mother James had once remarked to her: 'Christ was the saviour of Men but I am the saviour of Women and I don't envy him a bit.'[8]"
Despite being a bit of a player (convicted of bigamy lol), Hinton published one of the first reliable methods to visualizing the 4th spatial dimension. Now, today, we have computer software that will give us geometrically accurate 3d shadows of 4d shapes, but Hinton was able to see higher dimensions well enough to map them out. Or so he claims. I've never been to the 4th spatial dimension, so I'm unable to verify. But the meditation exercises are very interesting. Difficult without some handheld cubes, etc.
Not for the general reader.
Charles Hinton was the first public intellectual to write about higher dimensions with mathematical precision. Being primarily a professor of math, he was an interesting character for the 1800s. Here's a quote from wikipedia:
"His father James Hinton was a radical advocate of polygamous relationships,[7] and according to Charles' mother James had once remarked to her: 'Christ was the saviour of Men but I am the saviour of Women and I don't envy him a bit.'[8]"
Despite being a bit of a player (convicted of bigamy lol), Hinton published one of the first reliable methods to visualizing the 4th spatial dimension. Now, today, we have computer software that will give us geometrically accurate 3d shadows of 4d shapes, but Hinton was able to see higher dimensions well enough to map them out. Or so he claims. I've never been to the 4th spatial dimension, so I'm unable to verify. But the meditation exercises are very interesting. Difficult without some handheld cubes, etc.
Not for the general reader.
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