Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. All otherspelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
The cover was prepared by the transcriber and is placed in the publicdomain.
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
“Mr. C. H. Hinton discusses the subject of the higher dimensionality ofspace, his aim being to avoid mathematical subtleties and technicalities, andthus enable his argument to be followed by readers who are not sufficientlyconversant with mathematics to follow these processes of reasoning.”—NottsGuardian.
“The fourth dimension is a subject which has had a great fascination formany teachers, and though one cannot pretend to have quite graspedMr. Hinton’s conceptions and arguments, yet it must be admitted that hereveals the elusive idea in quite a fascinating light. Quite apart from themain thesis of the book many chapters are of great independent interest.Altogether an interesting, clever and ingenious book.”—Dundee Courier.
“The book will well repay the study of men who like to exercise their witsupon the problems of abstract thought.”—Scotsman.
“Professor Hinton has done well to attempt a treatise of moderate size,which shall at once be clear in method and free from technicalities of theschools.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“A very interesting book he has made of it.”—Publishers’ Circular.
“Mr. Hinton tries to explain the theory of the fourth dimension so thatthe ordinary reasoning mind can get a grasp of what metaphysicalmathematicians mean by it. If he is not altogether successful it is not fromwant of clearness on his part, but because the whole theory comes as such anabsolute shock to all one’s preconceived ideas.”—Bristol Times.
“Mr. Hinton’s enthusiasm is only the result of an exhaustive study, whichhas enabled him to set his subject before the reader with far more than theamount of lucidity to which it is accustomed.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“The book throughout is a very solid piece of reasoning in the domain ofhigher mathematics.”—Glasgow Herald.
“Those who wish to grasp the meaning of this somewhat difficult subjectwould do well to read The Fourth Dimension. No mathematical knowledgeis demanded of the reader, and any one, who is not afraid of a little hardthinking, should be able to follow the argument.”—Light.
“A splendidly clear re-statement of the old problem of the fourth dimension.All who are interested in this subject will find the work not only fascinating,but lucid, it being written in a style easily understandable. The illustrationsmake still more clear the letterpress, and the whole is most admirably adaptedto the requirements of the novice or the student.”—Two Worlds.
“Those in search of mental gymnastics will find abundance of exercise inMr. C. H. Hinton’s Fourth Dimension.”—Westminster Review.
First Edition, April 1904; Second Edition, May 1906.
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