Writing, geometry, and space in seventeenth-century England and America

circles in the sand

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circles in the sand

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Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Pages
166

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
526/.0942/09032
Library of Congress
GA793.6.A1 E39 2005, GA793.6.A1E39 2005, GA793.6 .A1, GA793.6.A1 E39 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
166

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3391998M
ISBN 10
041532341X
LCCN
2005000800
OCLC/WorldCat
1083003717, 57452856
Goodreads
255893

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL5814434W

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