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Calculating Similitude and Difference: John Seller and the 'Placing' of English Subjects in the Global Community of Nations (2006)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E. (2006). Calculating Similitude and Difference: John Seller and the 'Placing' of English Subjects in the Global Community of Nations. Social and Cultural Geography, 7(5), 687-707. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360600971242

This article examines uses of calculation in the works of John Seller, a seventeenth-century publisher of sea atlases, navigation manuals and popular geography texts. It is argued that Seller led his readers to calculate overseas places as distant bu... Read More about Calculating Similitude and Difference: John Seller and the 'Placing' of English Subjects in the Global Community of Nations.