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This innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and global scales.
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INTRODUCTION: Mapping Enlightenment from an Edinburgh Bookshop
I PLANNING: EDINBURGH AND THE NEW TOWN
1. Projecting: Cadastral Mapping and the Genesis of the New Town
2. Combining: Mapping Old, New and Soon
3. Dividing: Properties of the Plan Beyond
4. Extending: Progress and the Enlightenment Capital
II SURVEYING: EDINBURGH AND ITS ENVIRONS
5. Counting: Political Arithmetic in the Parish of Cramond
6. Generalising: County Connections and Enclosures
7. Overviewing: Distant Perspectives in the Borders
8. Subscribing: Patronising Surveys and Provincial Libraries
III TRAVELLING: EDINBURGH AND THE NATION
9. Piecing: Pre- and Post-Tour Epistles for Thomas Pennant's
Scotland 10. Improving: Robert Heron's
Journey through the Commerce of Print
11. Moving: Sarah Murray and her Travelling Readers
12. Trading: Routes in Scotland
IV COMPILING: EDINBURGH AND THE WORLD
13. Summarising: Global Knowledge in an Elite High School
14. Supplementing: The
Encyclopædia Britannica's Sources
15. Accessioning: The Family Collection
16. Institutionalising: Edinburgh Medical Students and Surgeons' Societies in the Nineteenth-Century World
CONCLUSION: Universalising Enlightenment Edinburgh
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About the author
PHIL DODDS is a researcher in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.
Summary
This innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and global scales.
