book
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
Gleeson-White, Jane. Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012.
Why this matters here
Gleeson-White shows how Venetian double-entry bookkeeping made certain economic relations newly navigable by deciding what to record and what to leave off the page. What We Cannot See takes that ledger logic as a reminder that adaptive maps become dangerous when their omissions are forgotten.
