The Refraction of Geometry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4369941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Engberg-Pedersen (0000-0002-6268-6197, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-52 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2013.123.1.23 |
| OpenAlex | W2143741365 |
| Language | EN |
This essay examines the role of geometry in military theory around 1700 and its critical reception in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Juxtaposing literature, maps, and war games, the essay outlines a poetics of war in the eighteenth century and traces the decline of the geometrical order that governs it. A forged continuation of Sterne's novel written in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars reveals the development of a new poetics and the installment of a military order based on topography and chance
Art · Geometry · Literature · Optics · Physics · Poetics · Poetry · Refraction · Historical Geography and Cartography · History · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |