Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Mapping Enlightenment from anEdinburgh Bookshop

pp 1-34

PART I - Planning: Edinburgh and the New Town

pp 35-38

1 - Projecting: Cadastral Mapping and the Genesis ofthe New Town

pp 39-48

2 - Combining: Mapping Old, New and Soon

pp 49-64

3 - Dividing: Properties of the Plan Beyond

pp 65-76

4 - Extending: Progress and the EnlightenmentCapital

pp 77-96

PART II - Surveying: Edinburgh and its Environs

pp 97-100

5 - Counting: Political Arithmetic in the Parish ofCramond

pp 101-114

6 - Generalising: County Connections andEnclosures

pp 115-126

7 - Overviewing: Distant Perspectives in theBorders

pp 127-140

8 - Subscribing: Patronising Surveys and ProvincialLibraries

pp 141-158

PART III - Travelling: Edinburgh and the Nation

pp 159-162

9 - Piecing: Pre- and Post-Tour Epistles for ThomasPennant’s Scotland

pp 163-174

10 - Improving: Robert Heron’s Journey through theCommerce of Print

pp 175-192

11 - Moving: Sarah Murray and her TravellingReaders

pp 193-206

12 - Trading: Routes in Scotland

pp 207-222

PART IV - Compiling: Edinburgh and the World

pp 223-226

13 - Summarising: Global Knowledge in an Elite HighSchool

pp 227-242

14 - Supplementing: The Encyclopædia Britannica’sSources

pp 243-262

15 - Accessioning: The Family Collection

pp 263-290

16 - Institutionalising: Edinburgh Medical Students andSurgeons’ Societies in the Nineteenth-CenturyWorld

pp 291-304

Conclusion: Universalising EnlightenmentEdinburgh

pp 305-330

Bibliography

pp 331-350

Index

pp 351-366