The measure of Manhattan : the tumultuous career and surprising legacy of John Randel Jr., cartographer, surveyor, inventor / Marguerite Holloway.

Author: Holloway, Marguerite.

Description:x, 372 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Note:Prologue: Big Rock -- In Which Reuben Skye Rose-Redwood and J.R. Lemuel Morrison Set Out To Find the Imagined City -- In Which John Randel Jr. Affixes the City to the Island -- In Which Rose-Redwood Surveys the 1811 Grid and Morrison Surveys Today's -- In Which Randel Keeps Seeking the Most Eligible Routes -- In Which Mannahatta Lifts Off -- In Which Is Described "The Ingenuity of the New" -- Epilogue: Randel's Rock.

Note:The first biography of an unrecognized, 19th-century genius, the man who plotted Manhattan's famous city grid.

ProductionNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

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