Footnotes

¹ Denes, Agnes 'Study of Distortions series 1973-79' Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space-Map Projections (Rochester, New York, Visual Studies Workshop, 1979), p3 form MAP, London: iniVa, 1996, p1-24

² Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities, London: Vintage 1997, p28

³ Sobel, Dava Longitude, New York: Walker and Co, 1995, p11

⁴ Carolin, Clare, Into the Light from A to B and Back again, London: RCA, 1999, p34

⁵ "For lack of a practical method determining longitude, every great captain in the Age of Exploration became lost at sea despite the best available charts and compasses. From Vasco de Gama to Vasco Nuņez de Balboa, from Ferdinand Magellan to Sir Francis Drake

—they all got where they were going willy-nilly by forces attributed to good luck or the grace of God. "From Dava Sovel, Longitude, New York: Walker and Co., 1995, p6

⁶ Sobel, Dava, Longitude, New York: Walker and Co, 1995 p 27

⁷ de Certeau, Michel, Walking in the City, from The Cultural Studies Reader, New York: Routledge, 199 p152

⁸ ibid, p153

⁹ Buck-Morss, Susan, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 1991, p342

¹⁰ Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities, London: Vintage, 1997, pp10-11

¹¹ Carroll, Lewis, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893) cited in Hughes, Patrick and George Brecht, Vicious Circles and Infinity. London: Penguin Books. 1975 p 66 and Bibliomania http::ww.bibliomania.com/0/0/11/20frameset.html quoted from Ray Langenbach, Mapping the Cartographer, catalogue o Wong Hoy Cheong, Willie Valentine Fine Arts & OVA, 2002, p.15

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