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Proposed Section Map

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SURVEYING

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• "Surveying Instruments"

  • The purpose of this​ gallery is to display surveying instruments as aesthetic and functional objects.

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• "Mapping the Coasts"

  • This section will provide images and history of chart and mapmaking during the rise of the industry, especially in London in the late 17th century.​

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• "Literary Surveyors"

  • This section ​explores what it means to conduct a literary survey, and how we can reread Thoreau's literary and surveying work together to come up with new theories of understanding the relationship between literature and environment.