Liberty's grid a founding father, a mathematical dreamland, and the shaping of America
"In 1784 Thomas Jefferson presented Congress with an audacious scheme to reshape the territory of the young United States: All western lands, he proposed, would be inscribed with a titanic rectilinear grid, aligned with the points of the compass. Why did the author of the Declaration of Independence...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- A Mathematical Prologue
- Life, Liberty, and Infinite Space
- A Mathematical Empire
- Rectilinear Cities
- Making the Greatest Grid
- Anti-geometry
- Conclusion: The Chasm.
