Sep 6, 2025
Claude Bragdon, A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
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Claude Bragdon, A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
Claude Bragdon, A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
The expression, the fourth dimension, offers a shock to the mind accustomed to practical handling of matter, because all our experiences of measurement or dimensionality are ultimately founded upon matter possessing but three dimensions, so that we have great difficulty in accepting the reality of a direction not contained in our space or our matter but definitely at right angles to every line that can be drawn within the matter and space which contain all our ordinary experiences. Our idea of space is partial, and like many another of our ideas needs modification to accommodate it to fuller knowledge. What we think of as space is more probably only some part of space made perceptible. It may be that our space bears a relation to space in its totality analogous to that which the images cast by a magic lantern bear to the wall on which these images are made to appear—a wall with solidity, thickness, extension in other and more directions than those embraced within the wavering circle of light which would correspond to our sense of the cosmos. In other words, perhaps that which we think of as space is only so much of it as our limited sensuous mechanism is able to apprehend.
Claude Bragdon, A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
Research leads always into the profound. The light of things known serves but to reveal a greater abysm of mystery beyond the threshold of consciousness. The higher space hypothesis makes man in his present estate appear but as an earthworm in power and knowledge, nevertheless it holds out the promise of eternal progress.
Claude Bragdon, A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
Adventure with me down a precipice of thought, sustained only by the rope of an analogy, slender but strong. This rope, anchored in the firm ground of sensuous perception, extends three paces in the direction of the great abyss, then vanishes at the giddy brink. Let us examine this sustaining simile foot by foot and strand by strand. Familiar both to the mind and eye are the space systems of one, two, and three dimensions; that is, lines, planes, solids. Lines are bounded by points, and themselves bound planes; line-bound planes in turn bound solids. What, then, do solids bound? Here is where the analogical rope vanishes from sight. If you answer that a solid cannot be a boundary we part company. No argument of mine can convince you to the contrary. But if you are interested, “Well, what do solids bound?” logic compels the answer, “Higher solids: four-dimensional forms (invisible to sight) related to the solids we know as these are related to their bounding planes; as planes to their bounding lines.”
Claude Bragdon, A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
Claude fayette Bragdon
Bragdon, as new director of LGC, engages in war of words with Gardner over settlement talks
CONCORD – State Sen. Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, executive director of HealthTrust, and Secretary of State Bill Gardner have accused opposing camps of sabotaging a settlement to the August 2012 ruling that the former Local Government Center improperly spent more than $50 million. In an exchange of letters, the former Senate president and the state’s top election official said the other side was untruthful about why a national insurance/finance expert won’t be brought in to try to resolve this long-running feud. “The HealthTrust board asked me to express its great disappointment that the settlement discussions ended in this manner, especially following a 10-hour marathon session on Aug. 5 that seemed to yield an agreement by both sides,” Bragdon wrote Gardner on Sept. 12. Bragdon, as new director of LGC, engages in war of words with Gardner over settlement talks
Architect Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1944) proposed a new aesthetics in architecture based on geometrical forms.
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