REF DT- Book Section TI- Establishing the "order of time and place": "rational geography", French erudition and the emplacement of history in Gibbon's mind AU- Abbattista, Guido AU- Burrow, John W. AU- Pocock, John AU- Womersley, David BT- Edward Gibbon Bicentenary essays PU- TIS- TXS- AB- TD- SE- NO- VO- None NV- None EN- LI- Oxford ET- Voltaire Foundation DA- 1997-01-01 YE- 1997 PA- 45-72 TC- IS- AB- KE- Histoire; Sciences; Antiquaires/érudits; Erudition/encyclopédisme; Géographie; Gibbon, Edward UR- AC- DB- lumieres.VD LG- Anglais END