Originally Posted By: Rev
Is my recollection correct when I say that I recall that in a "flatland" Flatland observers would experience a globe passing through their system first as a dot, then as a straight line?


I think your recollection is correct. Of course Abbott had to think of a clever way in which to make 2D objects visible in a 2D environment, as he was aware of the fact that his illustration using a coin on a table needed a third dimension. A shadow on a flat tabletop would not give the same result.

There never was nothing.