Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America: Circles in the Sand

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