Liberty's grid : a founding father, a mathematical dreamland, and the shaping of America
by Alexander, Amir (Author)
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"In 1784 Thomas Jefferson presented Congress with an audacious scheme to reshape the territory of the young United States: All western lands, he proposed, would be inscribed with a titanic rectilinear grid, aligned with the points of the compass. Why did the author of the Declaration of Independence... Full description
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