Surveying Library

For a collection of online texts related to surveying in early modern Europe and the Americas, take a look at this small "Surveying Library" I've been putting together on Google Books.

To make a start

To make a start,

out of particulars

and make them general, rolling

up the sum, by defective means--

     --William Carlos Williams, Preface to Paterson, Book I.

The Compleat Surveyor is an experiment, an attempt to create a collaborative workspace for a new interdisciplinary research project about land surveyors in early modern Europe and colonial North America. It is a place for collecting resources, recording observations, and making connections. These are my field notes. Welcome.