Free Download The measure of Manhattan the tumultuous career and surprising legacy of John Randel Jr., cartographer, surveyor, inventor By Holloway, Marguerite;Randel, John
2014 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 0393071251 | EPUB | 13 MB
"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway's biography tells his life with great skill."-Steve Weinberg, USA TodayJohn Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan's development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel's engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and mapmaking.Charged with "gridding" what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores. He was obsessed with accuracy and steeped in the values of the Enlightenment, in which math and science promised dominion over nature. The result was a series of maps, astonishing in their detail and precision, which undergird our knowledge about the island today. During his varied career Randel created surveying...
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