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In the month of May I seem to find myself playing with maps and numbers. To the uninvolved this may appear to be rather similar to my earl...

This is a short story about obsession: with a map, four books and some numbers. My last blog post was on Ken Alder's book "The M...

“ The Measure of All Things “ by Ken Alder tells the story of Pierre Méchain and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ’s efforts to survey the lin...

Once again I have been reading, this time " The World of Gerard Mercator " by Andrew Taylor. As before this blog post could be vi...