Thomas Darlington Cope (December 28, 1880 – December 13, 1964) was an American physicist and historian of science who published numerous articles concerning the Mason-Dixon survey in America, providing the most thorough record of the scientific accomplishments and historical importance of the survey.
Cope tends to focus on the scientific importance of the Mason-Dixon survey as an accomplishment of Enlightenment ingenuity applied to a geographically and politically difficult problem. Cope’s research is thought to serve as a significant source for the historical basis of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon.[1]
^Foreman, David. "Historical Documents Relating to Mason & Dixon." Pynchon and Mason & Dixon. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin, ed. (Newark: U. of Delaware P., 2000) p. 159.
^Catlett, J. Stephen, ed. A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1987. p 59.
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