Scientific Romances (First Series)

By Charles Howard Hinton

How might reality look if human perception were confined to only part of it? Moving between speculative essays and fictional narratives, this collection tests the boundaries of space, knowledge and consciousness through the unsettling possibility of higher dimensions. One inquiry constructs hypothetical one-, two-, three- and four-dimensional spaces, using them to challenge familiar assumptions about form and existence. Elsewhere, a society developing in an isolated valley becomes a framework for examining pleasure, pain, suffering, motivation and energy. Scientific speculation repeatedly opens into philosophical fiction, allowing abstract questions to acquire social, biological and mechanical consequences. Matter, electricity, the ther, mirror images and molecular motion are reconsidered through four-dimensional models, not as detached topics but as parts of a sustained investigation into how limited observers attempt to understand a larger reality. The collection's varied forms create a distinctive dialogue between imaginative experiment and physical theory. A block of cubes becomes an instrument for probing objective knowledge, handedness and the spatial assumptions imposed by the observer, while the recurring tension between perception and reality raises questions about identity and the limits of explanation. Precise models and speculative premises invite the mind to move beyond ordinary geometry without abandoning the problems of consciousness and experience. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 937841253X
• ISBN13: 9789378412530
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"