Mapping, measurement and metropolis :
how land surveyors shaped eighteenth-century Dublin /
Finnian Ó Cionnaith.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
Four Courts Press,
2012.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xxiv, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plates ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781846823480 (hardback) |
Table of Contents:
Part I: The profession: 1. 'That art which enables us to give a plan' : defining the name of and the need for land surveying
2. 'Taste, ability and good connections' : becoming a land surveyor in eighteenth-century Dublin
3. 'Very great and actual labour' : surveying fees, salaries and costs in eighteenth-century Dublin
4. 'The public may readily judge' : surveyors and the media
Part II: The science: 5. Manufacture and measurement: the scientific instrument trade and units of measurement
6. 'Exactness is required' : survey instrumentation
7. 'This unaccountable attractive virtue' : the problem of magnetic variation
8. Miscellaneous surveying instruments
Part III: The art: 9. 'With all the accuracy in my power' : map compilation and copying
10. 'To convey a correct and statistical representation' : printing, manuscripts and consumer demands
11. 'Please the fancy of the draftsman' : decorative features in Dublin period mapping
12. 'Much nearer the truth than imagined' : geographical referencing and area calculation
Part IV: The city: 13. Charles Brooking : Dublin in 1728
14. John Rocque : Dublin in 1756
15. Eighteenth-century Dublin city estates : urban metamorphosis through mapping
16. Dublin city surveyors, 1679-1828
Part V: The future: 17. 'To remedy some of those inconveniences' : surveying and the Wide Streets Commission, 1758-1810
18. 'Distances are of so great importance' : surveying and transportation
19. 'From thence to the quays' : charts of Dublin Bay and harbour, 1671-1803.
Part I: The profession: 1. 'That art which enables us to give a plan' : defining the name of and the need for land surveying
2. 'Taste, ability and good connections' : becoming a land surveyor in eighteenth-century Dublin
3. 'Very great and actual labour' : surveying fees, salaries and costs in eighteenth-century Dublin
4. 'The public may readily judge' : surveyors and the media
Part II: The science: 5. Manufacture and measurement: the scientific instrument trade and units of measurement
6. 'Exactness is required' : survey instrumentation
7. 'This unaccountable attractive virtue' : the problem of magnetic variation
8. Miscellaneous surveying instruments
Part III: The art: 9. 'With all the accuracy in my power' : map compilation and copying
10. 'To convey a correct and statistical representation' : printing, manuscripts and consumer demands
11. 'Please the fancy of the draftsman' : decorative features in Dublin period mapping
12. 'Much nearer the truth than imagined' : geographical referencing and area calculation
Part IV: The city: 13. Charles Brooking : Dublin in 1728
14. John Rocque : Dublin in 1756
15. Eighteenth-century Dublin city estates : urban metamorphosis through mapping
16. Dublin city surveyors, 1679-1828
Part V: The future: 17. 'To remedy some of those inconveniences' : surveying and the Wide Streets Commission, 1758-1810
18. 'Distances are of so great importance' : surveying and transportation
19. 'From thence to the quays' : charts of Dublin Bay and harbour, 1671-1803.