This impressive work of deep and meticulous critical scholarship illuminates the history of geography at a time well before it was established as a distinct subject in institutions of higher education in the British Isles ... As always, there is much of great value to be gained by studying the lessons of the past.
Paul Stock is Associate Professor of Early Modern International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous publications include The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe (2010) and The Uses of Space in Early Modern History (ed., 2015).