Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Introduction: Mapping Enlightenment from an Edinburgh Bookshop 1
6. PART I Planning: Edinburgh and the New Town
7. Introduction 36
8. 1 Projecting: Cadastral Mapping and the Genesis of the New Town 39
9. 2 Combining: Mapping Old, New and Soon 49
10. 3 Dividing: Properties of the Plan Beyond 65
11. 4 Extending: Progress and the Enlightenment Capital 77
12. PART II Surveying: Edinburgh and its Environs
13. Introduction 98
14. 5 Counting: Political Arithmetic in the Parish of Cramond 101
15. 6 Generalising: County Connections and Enclosures 115
16. 7 Overviewing: Distant Perspectives in the Borders 127
17. 8 Subscribing: Patronising Surveys and Provincial Libraries 141
18. PART III Travelling: Edinburgh and the Nation
19. Introduction 160
20. 9 Piecing: Pre- and Post-Tour Epistles for Thomas Pennant’s Scotland 163
21. 10 Improving: Robert Heron’s Journey through the Commerce of Print 175
22. 11 Moving: Sarah Murray and her Travelling Readers 193
23. 12 Trading: Routes in Scotland 207
24. PART IV Compiling: Edinburgh and the World
25. Introduction 224
26. 13 Summarising: Global Knowledge in an Elite High School 227
27. 14 Supplementing: The Encyclopædia Britannica’s Sources 243
28. 15 Accessioning: The Family Collection 263
29. 16 Institutionalising: Edinburgh Medical Students and Surgeons’ Societies in the Nineteenth-Century World 291
30. Conclusion: Universalising Enlightenment Edinburgh 305
31. Bibliography 331
32. Index 351