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

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

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

x, 166 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 5

Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-162) and index.

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 : surveying and the middle man.

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 5.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

GA793.6.A1 E39 2006