[Blindmath] Braille/Tactile Edition of "Flatland" (1884) by Edwin Abbott?

[John Gardner]

Hello Stewart, it does sound straightforward, but this is something that 
Bookshare should probably do.  They are in the graphics access business 
now!  I'll talk to them about it.

John


On 3/22/2010 9:02 AM, Stewart Dickson wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> To your knowledge, has anyone ever made a Braille edition of the book,
> "Flatland" (1884) by Edwin Abbott?
> http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/eaa/FL.HTM The books demonstrates very
> clearly the extension from two dimensions to three and then from three
> dimensions to four. Might this be an aid to blind people understanding
> solid geometry in three-space?
>
> The original illustrations for the book are quite simple pen-and-ink
> drawings which might be readable as raised lines, perhaps with some
> enlargement. It seems to me that someone either in your ViewPlus Tiger
> User's Group or the Accessible Image
> Group might be well equipped to take on such a project. The book is
> really quite small -- The HTML adaptation is 22 pages.
>
> You also have to filter the analogies in the book through the prism of
> Victorian social attitudes. :)
>
> Thanks,
>
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