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The grid book

Author: Hannah Higgins
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The deep history of ten grids that changed the world is presented, their evolution charted, to demonstrate the durability of each grid's organizing principles.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Hannah Higgins
ISBN: 9780262512404 0262512408
OCLC Number: 234175961
Description: 300 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introducing grids : a meditation on Mrs. O'Leary --
Brick --
Tablet --
Gridiron --
Map --
Notation --
Ledger --
Screen --
Type --
Box --
Network --
Afterword : toward fractional dimensions.
Responsibility: Hannah B. Higgins.
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Ten grids that changed the world: the emergence and evolution of the most prominent visual structure in Western culture.  Read more...

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"[I]t is...an informative and sometimes provocative meditation on the place of geometry in human life." Bryan Hayes American Scientist

 
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