Research Catalog

Title

Mapping, measurement and metropolis : how land surveyors shaped eighteenth-century Dublin / Finnian Ó Cionnaith.

Author

Ó Cionnaith, Finnian

Publication

• Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2012]
• ©2012

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Details

Description

xxiv, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm

Subject

• 1700-1799
• Surveying > Dublin > History > 18th century
• Surveyors > Dublin > History > 18th century
• Surveyors > Dublin > Biography
• City planning > Dublin > History > 18th century
• City planning
• Surveying
• Surveyors
• Vermessung
• Stadtplanung
• Dublin (Ireland) > History > 18th century
• Ireland > Dublin
• Dublin

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-239) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781846823480
• 184682348X

LCCN

2013409040

OCLC

• 779879799
• SCSB-13339326

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library