Hinton, Charles

At this point in his extraterrestrial arguments, and under the heading of La non-perception, Jouffret chooses to quote directly from another, pioneering and wholly pseudoscientific, study on fourth dimensionality, Charles H. Hinton s A New Era in Thought (1888). Jouffret leaves Hinton s text in the original English because, as he explains, this is trop difficile a traduire into French. According to Hinton (as quoted hy jouffret). 

Charles Hinton studied mathematics at Oxford, married Mary Boole (one of the daughters of famous logician Geoge Boole), and then moved to the United States after being convicted of bigamy. He taught mathematics at Princeton University and the University of Minnesota. In 1907, Hinton published An Episode of Flatland (a work more scientific than Abbott s Flatland) in which 2-D creatures resided on the surface of a circular world called Astria. Gravity behaves as it does in our world, except that on the plane its force varies inversely with distance instead of with the square of distance. 

Next time there is a bright blue arch of sky above, gaze at it and recall the words of Charles Hinton. 

Hinton, A., EC Classification for Environmental Dangers, Charles Simeons Conference, London, 1992, Mill Leet, Clay-Next-the-Sea, Norfolk NR25 7RR, England. 

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