Geography and Enlightenment

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: On Geography and Enlightenment
Charles W.J. Withers and David N. Livingstone
Beginnings
2. Global Illumination and Enlightenment in the Geographies of Vincenzo Coronelli and Athanasius Kircher
Denis Cosgrove
3. Geography, Enlightenment, and the Paradise Question
Charles W.J. Withers
4. Geographical Inquiry, Rational Religion, and Moral Philosophy: Enlightenment Discourses on the Human Condition
David N. Livingstone
Mappings
5. Historical Geographies of the Future: Three Perspectives from France, 1750-1825
Michael Heffernan
6. Reconsidering Enlightenment Geography and Map Making: Reconnaissance, Mapping, Archive
Matthew H. Edney
7. Ethnographic Navigation and the Geographical Gift
Michael T. Bravo
8. From Enlightenment Vision to Modern Science? Humboldt's Visual Thinking
Anne Marie Claire Godlewska
Travelings
9. On Being Perseus: New Knowledge, Dislocation, and Enlightenment Exploration
Dorinda Outram
10. Gaps in Knowledge: The Geography of Human Reason
Paul Carter
11. A Geography of Enlightenment: The Critical Reception of Alexander von Humboldt's Mexico Work
Nicolaas Rupke
Placings
12. Enlightenment, Improvement, and the Geographies of Horticulture in Later Georgian England
Stephen Daniels, Susanne Seymour, and Charles Watkins
13. Edinburgh, Enlightenment, and the Geographies of Unreason
Chris Philo
14. Lisbon 1755: Enlightenment, Catastrophe, and Communication
Peter Gould
Afterword
Roy Porter
Notes on Contributors
Index