In Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland, published in 1884, and in Sphereland, a 1965 sequel to Flatland by Dionys Burger, the 3-sphere is referred to as an oversphere, and a 4-sphere is referred to as a hypersphere.
The idea of a two dimensional world was lifted from the 1884 novella Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott, writer William Cox wove a lighthearted comedy treatment around the two dimensional concept called The Reluctant Monster (this had no relation to Flatland other than the idea of a 2-D world).
His book Flatland consists of visual patterns based on the typography of Edwin Abbott Abbott's classic novel Flatland and his book Local Colour is a series of colour blocks based on the original text of Paul Auster's novella Ghosts.
His first novel, Vas: An Opera in Flatland (with design by Stephen Farrell) is an adaptation of Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novel Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
Flatland returned to TVNorge in September 2008 as presenter of the gameshow Power of 10.
The word Binwangan in Waray means river mouth while 'Puliran' would mean to roll from hills to a flatland, a topographic condition present in the present town of Lumban.
San Sevaine Flats is a small area of flatland east of Cucamonga Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in San Bernardino County, California.