Historicist interpretations of the Book of Revelation shower of November 13, 1833. The classical historicist view of the vision of the angel with the "little book", in Revelation 10, represents the Protestant Reformation and the printing of Bibles in the common languages. The Adventists take a unique view applying it to the Millerite movement; the "bitterness" of the book (Rev 10:10) represents the Great Disappointment. The classical historicist view takes a number of different perspectives, including that the two witnesses are symbolic of two insular Christian movements, such as the Waldenses, or that the Reformers are meant, or the Old Testament and the New Testament. It is
The Fourth Dimension (book) Publications with its original subtitle. Like other Rucker books, "The Fourth Dimension" is dedicated to Edwin Abbott Abbott, author of the novella "Flatland". "The Fourth Dimension" teaches readers about the concept of a fourth spatial dimension. Several analogies are made to "Flatland"; in particular, Rucker compares how a square in Flatland would react to a cube in Spaceland to how a cube in Spaceland would react to a hypercube from the fourth dimension. The book also includes multiple puzzles. "Kirkus Reviews" called it "animated, often amusing", and a "rare treat", but noted that the book eventually leaves mathematical topics behind