John Ogilby, Ogelby, or Oglivie (17 November 1600 – 4 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably...
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punishment beating David Ogilby (disambiguation) John Ogilby (1600–1676), Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer William Ogilby (1805–1873), Irish...
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Britannia (atlas) (redirect from List of plates in Ogilby's "Britannia")
1586, reprinted 1693) and Richard Blome (in 1673) and John Ogilby (in 1675). Of the three, Ogilby's is probably best known because it was the first to use...
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pilgrims reach Rome for the occasion of the "Holy Year 1500". In 1675, John Ogilby issued his Britannia atlas, in the form of a strip map for each major...
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at years of discretion." John Keats praised Chapman in the sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1816). John Ogilby's mid-17th-century translation...
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made by Richard Blome (1635-1705) Britannia (atlas)#Ogilby's Britannia Atlas made by John Ogilby (1600–1676) Britannia Depicta, an illustrated road atlas...
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mahogany is uncertain and a subject of debate. The term first appeared in John Ogilby's "America" (1671), referring to a "curious and rich wood" from Jamaica...
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Klencke Atlas (1660; one of the world's largest books) Britannia (1675), John Ogilby (1600–1676), first to be printed at a specific scale (1:63,360 or one...
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square Chains an Acre, so that a square Mile contains 640 square Acres." —John Ogilby, Britannia, 1675 The official use of the furlong was abolished in the...
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Chains an Acre, so that a square Mile contains 640 square Acres...' — John Ogilby, Britannia, 1675 The method of surveying a field or other parcel of land...
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Weyerstraten, cocredited first to his widow and then to their legal heirs. John Ogilby's English versions only included a greatly abbreviated treatment of Kircher's...
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Fables 1484, II.12 John E. Keller, L. Clark Keating, Aesop's Fables translated from the Spanish, Kentucky University 1993, p. 81 John Ogilby, Aesopics or a...
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translated into English with some additions by John Ogilby in two editions in 1669 and 1673. Ogilby's translations included the Jesuit Johann Adam Schall...
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was the step-grandson of John Ogilby and, following Ogilby's death in 1676, carried on the cartographic publications that Ogilby had started, including...
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of the name. Prior to 1768, it was marked as "ye Bottom" on a map by John Ogilby dated 1675. The northern end of the Bowl is known as Highcombe Bottom...
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ISBN 978-0-393-06532-9. Retrieved March 7, 2011. Ereira, Alan (2016). The Nine Lives of John Ogilby. Duckworth. p. xxi. ISBN 9780715652268. Medicorum Collegij Londinensis...
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power is central to and the sustainer of the state. This was so too for John Ogilby in the context of the troubled history of 17th century England. The only...
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Britannia Depicta or Ogilby improv'd was an illustrated road atlas for Britain. It was printed in numerous editions over many decades from 1720 into the...
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Bacon, Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne, John Dee, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, John Ogilby, William Petty and William Shakespeare...
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6 January 2023. Ogilby, John; Morgan, William (1677). City of London: Ogilby and Morgan's Map of 1677 (Map). 1:1200. London: Ogilby and Morgan. Also...
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Chains an Acre, so that a square Mile contains 640 square Acres...' — John Ogilby, Britannia, 1675 From Gunter's system, the chain and the link became...
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wheat", as Roger L'Estrange termed it in his own prose version of 1692. John Ogilby and Samuel Croxall returned to the more violent ending in their versions...
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PDF | Morocco | Moors, Page 128 & 199". Scribd. Retrieved 2023-10-26. Ogilby, John (7 October 1670). Africa being an accurate description of the regions...
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sails. Early ? – Dud Dudley, English metallurgist (died 1684) November – John Ogilby, Scottish cartographer (died 1676) approx. date – Lionel Lockyer, English...
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Wayback Machine from Antique Maps. John Speed and John Ogilby, 15-16th century cartographers, a guide to Speed and John Ogilby, with a focus on their cartographic...
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Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia. On the other hand, as early as 1670 John Ogilby under the title Africa published "an accurate Description of the Regions...
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foundation became the basis for the modern city of Vadodara. A later atlas by John Ogilby refers to people moving from the old town to the new one.: 92 After...
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the Rebellion Atlas (1895) Maps of the United Kingdom The Brittania (John Ogilby, 1670–1676) Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1784–1853) Wikimedia...
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once a day from Monday to Saturday to Forfar. It was withdrawn in 2019. John Ogilby (also Ogelby, Oglivie) was born in Kirriemuir in November 1600; publisher...
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Natural History Society. In 1673, the royal cosmographer and cartographer John Ogilby, planning a national atlas and chorography of Britain, licensed Aubrey...
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