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Views of the Tesseract (1904)

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Views of the Tesseract (1904)

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A  series  of  images  from  Charles  Howard  Hinton’s  The  Fourth  Dimension(https://archive.org/details/fourthdimensio00hint)  (1904), a book all about  the “tesseract” – a  four­dimensional analog of the cube, the tesseract being to the cube as the cube is to the square. Hinton, aBritish mathematician and science fiction writer, actually coined the term “tesseract” which appearsfor  the  first  time  in his book A New Era of Thought  (1888). We are not going  to pretend  to havegiven  the  time  to  his  book  to  understand  fully  the  concept  behind  these  diagrams,  but  they  are  afascinating series of  images all  the same (particular  the coloured frontispiece featured above), andoffer  a glimpse  into  the  theory of  four­dimensional  space which would prove  so  important  to  thedevelopment  of  modern  physics.  Although  Hinton’s  work  was  an  important  stepping  stone  inunderstanding  four­dimensional  space,  the  real  breakthrough  came  in  a  1908  paper  by  HermannMinkowski, in which four­dimensional space was thought of in non­Euclidean terms, leading to therevolutionary concept of “spacetime”.  

Apart  from his  ideas and  inventions —  including a baseball  cannon which  fired  the ball with  thehelp of gunpowder — Hinton became notorious for having committed bigamy, marrying Mary EllenBoole  in 1880 and Maud Florence  in 1883. The scandal subsequently  forced him to  leave Britainand he traveled to America with his first wife where he taught mathematics at Princeton University,later working for the University of Minnesota as well as the United States Patent Office.

Housed at: Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/fourthdimensio00hint) | From: University of Toronto

(https://archive.org/details/pimslibrary)

Found via: JF Ptak Science Books Blog (http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2014/07/crazy­cubes­baseball­cannons­logic­

and­the­4th­dimension­1897.html)

Underlying Work: PD Worldwide (http://publicdomainreview.org/rights­labelling­on­our­site/#pd­worldwide) | Digital Copy: Pending

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(http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/?tag=physics), spacetime(http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/?tag=spacetime), tesseract

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