Hinton - The Fourth Dimension.pdf

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
This e-text of The Fourth Dimension was initially key-entered
from a poor quality facsimile of the first edition. Some sections
in that printing (perpetrated by Kessinger Publications in Kila,
Montana) were illegible and the colour plate was photocopied in
black and white rendering it useless; these have been corrected
based on other copies of the text; the colour plate has been
reconstructed based on a colour photo-copy of the first edition
and the descriptions in the text.
“A Language of Space” was not part of the first edition; it was
issued as a pamphlet around the same time, and was bound in at
the start of the Kessinger printing, separately paginated. In 1906
and subsequent printings of The Fourth Dimension it was
included at the end as a second appendix.
All figures have been redrawn as vector art. In some of the
views of the cube and tesseract in chapters XI-XIII, figures have
been coloured instead of, or in addition to, placing the colour
names or their initials on the figure. To make the nomenclature
clear, wherever a particular colour is first used, the name is also
printed. These colours are the same as those used in the colour
plate; I have followed the original printing in rendering “null” as
a light grey.
A few obvious typographical errors have been fixed, and some
minor changes in punctuation made for the sake of clarity. Some
errors in the mnemonics for the syllogism on p. 101 have been
corrected.
In the first paragraph on p. 173 the second sentence originally
ran “Then each of the eight lines of the cube …” and the
calculation of the number of bounding squares of the tesseract
was thus given as 12 + 8 = 20. This has been corrected as an
obvious error (similarly in the last paragraph on p. 177).
Love is the law, love under will.
T.S.
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