[Rarebooks] FS - Scientific Romances and the fourth dimension

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*HINTON, C. H., /SCIENTIFIC ROMANCES Second Series./* Nicely bound in 
original red cloth with gilt lettering and device to front board and 
gilt lettering to spine. Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London. 
1902. Small 8vo, pp. 177, ad. Slightly cocked, with a trifle of wear to 
the edges of the boards. Binding slightly shaken, but everything tight. 
Overall, very good condition.

"A theoretical and practical treatise on the fourth dimension" 
consisting of a novella, a longish story, and two short stories, two of 
which were first published in 1885. Charles H. Hinton (1853-1907) a 
British author, was well-known for his speculations on the fourth 
dimension (see Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, Vol 
14, 1902). He married a daughter of logician George Boole, but was 
forced to leave England after a bigamy conviction. He was, for a time, 
an instructor of mathematics at Princeton, but after being fired, taught 
at the University of Minnesota, later moving to Washington, DC, where he 
served at the Naval Observatory and became a patent examiner. There he 
died suddenly when asked to give a toast to "female philosophers" at a 
Society of Philosophic Inquiry meeting.A man of no few talents, he also 
invented a gun used in baseball batting practice (see www.ibiblio org).

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