1st Edition
Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America Circles in the Sand
By Jess Edwards
Copyright 2005
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The early modern map has come to mark the threshold of modernity, cutting through the layered customs of Medieval parochialism with its clean, expansive geometries. Re-thinking the role played by mathematics and cartography in the English seventeenth century, this book argues that the cultural currency of mathematics was as unstable in the period as that of England's controversial enclosures and... Read more
List of Figures 1. Introduction: Writing, Geometry and Space 2. Discipline and Polish: The Age of Improvement and its Limits 3. Humanist Geometries: Circles in the Sand 4. Discipline Reconsidered: A Perspective to Look Beyond Tradition 5. Ambivalent Geographies 6. Points Mean Prizes: Self-Fashioning and the Mathematical Career 7. The Doubtful Traveller: Mapping and the Middle Man Notes Index
Biography
Jess Edwards is Principal Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.
