Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich

by Thomas Levenson

Petty offered to measure everything: the whole of Ireland, its ownership, its geography, all of its “rivers, mountains, ridges, rocks, sloughs and bogs,” along with the houses, barns, fences, and all the rest that made up the island’s real property.