John Ludovicus Viele

The Return to Reality

• Author(s): Reinhard Clifford Kuhn

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1962
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• Publisher: Librairie Droz

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Lineage Book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America

• Author(s): National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1919
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Acts and Proceedings

• Author(s): Reformed Church in America. General Synod

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1849
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Acts and Proceedings in Regular Session

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1849
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor

• Author(s): Marguerite Holloway

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013-02-18
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• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA Today John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and mapmaking. Charged with “gridding” what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores. He was obsessed with accuracy an...