The Fourth Dimension
by Charles Howard Hinton · first published 1934
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If you think that us 3D people will never be able to wrap their heads around 4D, you have to read Charles Hinton's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton) The Fourth Dimension (https://archive.org/details/fourthdimension00hintarch). This is the guy who coined the terms ana and kata (from Greek) for the two additional 4D directions, analogous to up/down, etc. (he also invented…
on “4D Tesseract: Fourth Dimension Game” ↗…A Romance of Many Dimensions was made in 1884 and for a while, speculation and attempts at visualization of higher dimensions were popular. Hinton coined "tesseract" in 1888, and by 1904 his book The Fourth Dimension introduced his cubes. In one of Martin Gardner's books I had found a letter discussing a potential downsides of such studies, that some began to inescapably visualize the exercise progression which went…
on “Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (2022)” ↗I first learned about this while researching references in From Hell by Alan Moore. Hinton wrote an article called "What is the Fourth Dimension?" which plays a part in the story.
on “Inside the weird and delightful origins of the jungle gym, which just turned 100” ↗