Writing, geometry, and space in seventeenth-century England and America
Subtitle: circles in the sand
By: Jess Edwards.
Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture -- 5
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Cartography -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Surveying -- America -- History -- 17th century.; Early maps.; Cartography -- Economic aspects.; Cartography -- Mathematics -- History -- 17th century.; Surveying -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Cartography -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : writing, geometry, and space; value: Discipline and polish : the age of improvement and its limits; value: Humanist geometries : circles in the sand; value: Discipline reconsidered : a perspective to look beyond tradition; value: Ambivalent geographies; value: Points mean prizes : self-fashioning and the mathematical career; value: The doubtful traveller : mapping and the middle man.