Writing, geometry, and space in seventeenth-century England and America
Subtitle: circles in the sand
By: Jess Edwards.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Cartography -- England -- History -- 17th century; Cartography -- America -- History -- 17th century; Cartography -- Mathematics -- History -- 17th century; Surveying -- England -- History -- 17th century; Surveying -- America -- History -- 17th century; Early maps; Cartography -- Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : writing, geometry, and space; title: Discipline and polish : the age of improvement and its limits; title: Humanist geometries : circles in the sand; title: Discipline reconsidered : a perspective to look beyond tradition; title: Ambivalent geographies; title: Points mean prizes : self-fashioning and the mathematical career; title: The doubtful traveller : mapping and the middle man.