Re-thinking the roles played by mathematics and cartography in the English seventeenth century, this book explores the unstable currency of mathematics at the time, and traces it through a wide variety of literary and scientific texts.
Re-thinking the roles played by mathematics and cartography in the English seventeenth century, this book explores the unstable currency of mathematics at the time, and traces it through a wide variety of literary and scientific texts.
Jess Edwards is Principal Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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