RecordNumber
3619
Author
Simoson, Andrew
Crop_Body
Andrew Simoson
Title of Article
The Size and Shape of Utopia
Title Of Journal
Bridges
Publication Year
2016
Abstract
In celebration of the fifth centennial of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia of 1516, we offer a solution to a geographical/
mathematical puzzle posed in the text, namely, the possible size and shape of the island. Translating More’s
five verbal clues into mathematics yields five equations with five unknowns, and a solution to the puzzle, which we
contrast with various maps made by cartographers/artists over the years.