Writing, geometry and space in seventeenth-century England and America : circles in the sand / Jess Edwards

Author: Edwards, Jess, 1967-
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description: x, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 5.

Contents

Introduction : writing, geometry and space -- Discipline and polish : the age of improvement and its limits -- Humanist geometries : circles in the sand -- Discipline reconsidered : a perspective to look beyond tradition -- Ambivalent geographies -- Points mean prizes : self-fashioning and the mathematical career -- The doubtful traveller : mapping and the middle man.

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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

ISBN

041532341X

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-162) and index.

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Writing, geometry and space in seventeenth-century England and America : circles in the sand / Jess Edwards

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