{"id":5680,"date":"2013-10-27T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T16:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2013-10-27T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T16:47:54","slug":"flatland-and-abbott-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/flatland-and-abbott-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatland Worldwide and Edwin A. Abbott at 75 (+100) Exhibit Opens November 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5683\" alt=\"flatland\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2013\/08\/flatland.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-200x141.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-450x318.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-600x424.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/08\/flatland-900x636.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AFTER 130 YEARS, Flatland continues to be the best seller in mathematically inspired fiction. This exhibit features translations into 18 foreign languages (so far) and several recent versions with new introductions, both in England and the US. There are also<br \/>\nfour film adaptations and an electronic edition, with notes and commentary from Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit includes treasured pre-publication volumes signed by the author, Edwin Abbott (1838 \u20131926). The materials comprising this exhibit are now part of the permanent Flatland collection donated to the Library by Professor Thomas Banchoff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:\u00a0<\/strong>November 1 \u2013 November 29, 2013<br \/>\n<strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER 130 YEARS, Flatland continues to be the best seller in mathematically inspired fiction. This exhibit features translations into 18 foreign languages (so far) and several recent versions with new introductions, both in England and the US. There are also four film adaptations and an electronic edition, with notes and commentary from Cambridge University Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/flatland-and-abbott-exhibit\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Flatland Worldwide and Edwin A. Abbott at 75 (+100) Exhibit Opens November 1st<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}