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Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer (1600–1676)
John Ogilby, Ogelby, or Oglivie (17 November 1600 – 4 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably
John_Ogilby
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punishment beating David Ogilby (disambiguation) John Ogilby (1600–1676), Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer William Ogilby (1805–1873), Irish
Ogilby
1675 atlas of most major routes in England and Wales
reprinted in 1693) and Richard Blome (in 1673) and John Ogilby (in 1675). Of the three, Ogilby's is probably the best known as it was the first to use
Britannia_(atlas)
Circa 1614 English translation
said Chapman's had been supplanted as the pre-eminent translation by John Ogilby. Ezra Pound, meanwhile, described Chapman as "the best English Homer"
Odyssey (George Chapman translation)
Odyssey_(George_Chapman_translation)
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
An Embassy from the East-India Company
An_Embassy_from_the_East-India_Company
Map that displays roads and transport links
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
Road_map
Topics referred to by the same term
made by Richard Blome (1635-1705) Britannia (atlas)#Ogilby's Britannia Atlas made by John Ogilby (1600–1676) Britannia Depicta, an illustrated road atlas
Britannia_(disambiguation)
Distance measuring device used for surveying
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
Gunter's_chain
Aesop's fable
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
The_Bald_Man_and_the_Fly
Collection of maps
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
Atlas
Play by James Shirley
Earl of Kildare, and is prefaced by dedicatory poems, including one by John Ogilby, the founder of the Werburgh Street Theatre. The Epilogue extols both
The_Royal_Master
Site of special scientific interest in Surrey, England
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
Devil's_Punch_Bowl
Epic poem attributed to Homer
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
Iliad
Unit of length
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
Chain_(unit)
Fable by Aesop
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
The_Belly_and_the_Members
Jacob van Meurs. It was published, after translation into English, by John Ogilby. The book has 125 engravings made of copper. It has 70 plates and 16
De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld
De_Nieuwe_en_Onbekende_Weereld
was the step-grandson of John Ogilby and, following Ogilby's death in 1676, carried on the cartographic publications that Ogilby had started, including
William_Morgan_(cartographer)
1630s play by James Shirley
in May 1636, Shirley left England for Ireland, where he worked under John Ogilby at the Werburgh Street Theatre in Dublin for four years. The Duke's Mistress
The_Duke's_Mistress
English cartographer and historian (1551 or 1552 – 1629)
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
John_Speed
of Homer's Iliads. Printed by T. Lock, for the author. OCLC 83262010. John Ogilby "Homer, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 10 (Homer's Iliad and
English_translations_of_Homer
Cádiz in safety. Kempthorne's engagement, engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar (John Ogilby, Description of Africa, 1670) Painting of the action by Willem van de
Action_of_28–29_December_1669
English actor
London, he was lured away to the new Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin by John Ogilby. He was back with the Duke's at the Dorset Garden Theatre from the mid-1670s
John_Richards_(actor)
with the king is recorded as early as the seventeenth century, when John Ogilby wrote that "Dunmail-Raise-Stones" were erected by a Cumbrian ruler of
Dunmail
Ancient fables, including Aesop's
Phalerum, and may have been of Oriental origin. The fable was versified by John Ogilby as "An Aegyptian King and his Apes" and told by Roger L'Estrange with
The_Ape_and_the_Fox
1715–20 translation of the Iliad by Alexander Pope
fascination with Homer began when, at the age of about eight, he read John Ogilby's translation. His first known versions of extracts from the Iliad were
Iliad (Alexander Pope translation)
Iliad_(Alexander_Pope_translation)
Unit of length
in 1593 and popularized by Royal surveyor (called the 'sworn viewer') John Ogilby only after the Great Fire of London (1666). An acre is defined as the
Rod_(unit)
Timber of tropical hardwood species in the genus Swietenia
is uncertain and debated. The term first appeared as "Mohogeney" in John Ogilby’s America (1670), describing a “curious and rich wood” from Jamaica. Early
Mahogany
Book by Athanasius Kircher
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
China_Illustrata
collectively maintained a regional monopoly on religious animal sacrifice. John Ogilby wrote in 1670 that the 600 "Zaffe-Hibrahim" inhabiting Nosy Boraha (which
Judaism_in_Madagascar
Aesop's fable
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
The_Dog_and_the_Sheep
English writer and antiquarian
Natural History Society. In 1673, the royal cosmographer and cartographer John Ogilby, planning a national atlas and chorography of Britain, licensed Aubrey
John_Aubrey
Aesop's fable
the different battles into an extended fable was carried forward by John Ogilby in 1668, soon to be followed by accounts of their marshland battle with
The_Frog_and_the_Mouse
the Rebellion Atlas (1895) Maps of the United Kingdom The Brittania (John Ogilby, 1670–1676) Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1784–1853) Wikimedia
List_of_historical_maps
Town in Angus, Scotland
played in the Scottish Cup for five seasons, and Kirriemuir F.C. for one. John Ogilby (also Ogelby, Oglivie) (1600–1676), born in Kirriemuir; publisher, translator
Kirriemuir
Market town in Cambridgeshire, England
page 2 John Ogilby, Britannia Volume the First or, An Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, self published by Ogilby, London
St_Ives,_Cambridgeshire
Poem by Virgil
and civil conflict. John Ogilby (1649), first complete Virgil in English including a translation of the Georgicks in couplets John Dryden (London, 1697)
Georgics
Earliest Accounts to the Death of Augustus. University Press. Lemprière, John; Ogilby, John David (1 January 1839). Bibliotheca Classica, Or A Dictionary of All
List of largest European cities in history
List_of_largest_European_cities_in_history
English cartographer, globemaker, instrument maker and publisher
John Ogilby, and John Seller. With Robert Morden he produced in 1683 A New Terrestrial Globe made by Rt. Morden, Wm. Berry, Ph. Lea. With John Ogilby
Philip_Lea
2008 British TV series or programme
series of journeys through Wales following the world's first road atlas: John Ogilby's Britannia, published in 1675." In the series, Jones argues that Britannia
Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery
Terry_Jones'_Great_Map_Mystery
2004 British TV series or programme
September 2004. William Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747–53) John Ogilby's "Britannia" (1675) Harry Beck's London Underground Map (1933) The Gough
Mapman
Chinese mythological creature
description of white, droop-eared companion cats was copied in 1673 by John Ogilby and by later authors. An engraving from Athanasius Kircher's book China
Sumxu
Metropolis in Gujarat, India
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. After Akbar
Vadodara
Geographical convention
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
Boundaries between the continents
Boundaries_between_the_continents
Fable by Aesop
commercially successful Dutch Republic. The first to do so was the royalist John Ogilby, adding the fable to his 1665 edition, coupled with an illustration by
The_Frogs_and_the_Sun
English poet and playwright (1596–1666)
Earl of Kildare. Three or four of his plays were produced by his friend John Ogilby in Dublin's Werburgh Street Theatre, the first ever built in Ireland
James_Shirley
Culverted stream in west London
A brick bridge over Counter's Creek shown in a 1675 map by John Ogilby.
Counter's_Creek
Prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff; ... Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby, 1673, p.82 Austin (2007), p. 129
Yangzhou
Point from which distances from London are measured
Press. pp. 20–27, 34. ISBN 978-0-19-928120-6. Ogilby, John (1675). "Preface". Britannia. London. Cary, John (1798). "Advertisement". Cary's New Itinerary
Charing_Cross
Late 17th-century collection of biographies by John Aubrey
Bacon, Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne, John Dee, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, John Ogilby, William Petty and William Shakespeare
Brief_Lives
1390–1914 state in Central Africa; Portuguese vassal from 1857
beschrijvinge der Africa gewesten. (Amsterdam, 1668) English translation, John Ogilby, London, 1670. Franco, António. Synopsis Annalium societatis Jesu in
Kingdom_of_Kongo
Aesop's fable, that a broken friendship cannot be mended
An illustration of the fable from the 1673 edition of John Ogilby's The Fables of Aesop
The_Snake_and_the_Farmer
German Jesuit scholar and polymath (1602–1680)
Athanasius Kircher; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby (1673) Athanasius Kircher Project at Historical Archives of the Pontifical
Athanasius_Kircher
Tang Chinese Christian stele (est. 781)
Athanasius Kircher; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby (1673); the relevant chapters appear there as "[Kircher Appendix] Chap
Xi'an_Stele
amazement that a Scot could write such excellent English. Scottish poet John Ogilby, who was the first Irish Master of the Revels, had established the Werburgh
Theatre_of_the_United_Kingdom
One of Aesop's Fables
obeys", following John Ogilby's slightly earlier example of giving the story a political interpretation. But there is more nuance in Ogilby's narrative. He
The_Satyr_and_the_Traveller
English cartographer (c. 1540 – c. 1610)
11 Evans & Lawrence 1979, p. 9 Ereira, Alan (2019). The nine lives of John Ogilby : Britain's master map maker and his secrets. London: Duckworth. p. 116
Christopher_Saxton
Town in Surrey, England
in Frimley on 24 March 1983. He has played county cricket for Hampshire. John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter, was born on 25 April 1981 in Frimley
Frimley
Calendar year
October 4 – Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1681) November – John Ogilby, English writer and cartographer (d. 1676) November 15 – Aniello Falcone
1600
Road in the London Borough of Camden
Inn, from where it becomes an unnamed track leading into the country. John Ogilby and William Morgan's map of 1676 shows "Grayes-Inn Lane" which is clearly
Gray's_Inn_Road
Road atlas of Britain first published in 1720
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
Britannia_Depicta
Major road in England
"Old Hampshire Mapped : Ogilby Routes". Geography Department, Portsmouth University. 2003. Retrieved 11 August 2016. Ogilby, John (1699). The Traveller's
A30_road
Kingdom in modern-day Cameroon
land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia and the Abyssines by John Ogilby, Esq. p. 633. Stewart, John (2006). African States and Nations (3rd ed.). Jefferson:
Mandara_Kingdom
Street in north London
the Earl of Dorset's survey 6" BCM. John Ogilby's Map of Middlesex c1677. Edward Wyburd's Survey and Plan 1718. John Warburton Map of the City of London
Lordship_Lane,_Haringey
Protective spirits in Bakongo religion
(Amsterdam, 1668), p. 548 (see English translation in John Ogilby, Africa (London, 1670), p. 514). John Thornton, "The Development of an African Catholic
Nkisi
Ancient Greek storyteller (620–564 BCE)
Philostrates (1637). In England, there was Francis Cleyn's frontispiece to John Ogilby's The Fables of Aesop and the much later frontispiece to Godwin's Fables
Aesop
English statesman (1593–1641)
the Werburgh Street Theatre, Ireland's first theatre, was opened by John Ogilby, a member of his household, and survived for several years despite the
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Earl_of_Strafford
American comedian and actor (1874–1922)
the show was Williams' copy of a 1670 book, Africa, in which author John Ogilby traced the history of the continent's tribes and peoples. "With this
Bert_Williams
17th-century English comic actor and playwright
married Roger Parker. In 1631 Lacy became an apprentice of John Ogilby, when Ogilby was functioning as what was then called a "dancing master"—roughly
John_Lacy_(playwright)
mathematician and astronomist Jean-Baptiste Nolin (France, c.1657–1708) John Ogilby (Scotland, 1600–1676) Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600–1667) Peter Schenk
List_of_cartographers
Day of the year
(born 1532) 1625 – Thomas Smythe, English diplomat (born 1558) 1676 – John Ogilby, Scottish-born impresario and cartographer (born 1600) 1767 – Charles
September_4
English cartographer, engraver and explorer
English Atlas. In 1719 he published a miniature edition of Britannia by John Ogilby. He became particularly interested in depicting California as an island
John_Senex
British author
ISBN 978-0-563-53916-2. Ereira, Alan (17 August 2016). The Nine Lives of John Ogilby. Duckworth Overlook (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-7156-5110-0. Information
Alan_Ereira
Postal system in the United Kingdom
until 2006. Under the Commonwealth the Post Office was farmed to John Manley and John Thurloe, successively. In 1657 an Act of Parliament entitled Postage
General_Post_Office
"first Irish playhouse." The Werburgh Street Theatre was established by John Ogilby at least by 1637 and perhaps as early as 1634. The earliest Irish-born
Irish_literature
Aesop's fable
governing class is also capable of the political reading given it by John Ogilby in his Fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse (1665). The lesson there
The_Cock_and_the_Jewel
Dutch book from 1668
issued in 1670, as was the English translation, often attributed to John Ogilby, as Africa in 1670. A French translation also appeared in 1676. All of
Description of Africa (Dapper book)
Description_of_Africa_(Dapper_book)
Anglo-Irish army officer
Colonel Robert James Leslie Ogilby, DSO, DL (1880–1964), was a senior British Army officer who commanded a battalion of the London Scottish Regiment in
Robert_Ogilby
Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England
Enslow. There was a bridge here by the time that John Leland toured England in 1538–43. John Ogilby's Britannia Atlas of 1675 records a timber bridge here
Enslow
c. 1550–1883 coastal kingdom in west Central Africa
548; Ogilby, Africa, p. 514. Dapper, Naukeurige Beschrijvinge, pp. 549-52; Ogilby, Africa, pp. 514-17. For a modern interpretation, see John Janzen
Kingdom_of_Loango
Major road in England
London was altered to go through Melksham; and in 1695 the map maker, John Ogilby, produced a map of the Hungerford area of the Great West Road showing
A4_road_(England)
Village in Hampshire, England
used in emergencies, such as the Armada of 1588. The map of 1675 by John Ogilby shows this road bypassing Bramshott and going through Lippock, however
Liphook
Bilateral relations
contacted in order to reopen trade between England and Japan. 1670. John Ogilby publishes the first translation of Atlas Japanensis in London, reprinted
Japan–United Kingdom relations
Japan–United_Kingdom_relations
Topics referred to by the same term
Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield, Scottish nobleman John Ogilvie (disambiguation) John Ogilby – Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer (1600–1676)
John_Ogilvy
Historical development of London
baronial rebels against King John and was acclaimed as King of England in St Paul's Cathedral. However, following John's death in 1217 Louis's supporters
History_of_London
English Roman Catholic priest and spy
Catholic earls to follow up and to countermine the diplomatic intrigues of John Ogilby of Poury, who had, or pretended to have, a secret mission from James
John_Cecil_(priest)
1656, portraits of Richard Kirkby, John Ogilby, and William Dobson; the last-named etching was long attributed to John Evelyn. There is in the British Museum
Josias_English
Medieval fable attributed to Aesop
Bellingcat. The first English collection to attribute the fable to Aesop was John Ogilby's of 1687; in this there is a woodcut (by Francis Barlow), followed by
Belling_the_Cat
City in Karnataka, India
rice, coco-nuts, and dried fish. In about 1670 the English geographer John Ogilby mentioned Attany as a great trading town. In 1675, Fryer, the English
Athani,_Belagavi
Irish zoologist
William Ogilby (1805 – 1 September 1873) was an Irish-born zoologist who was at the forefront of classification and naming of animal species in the 1830s
William_Ogilby
Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, Royalist leader (died 1658) November – John Ogilby, writer and cartographer (died 1676) William Prynne, puritan politician
1600s_in_England
Aesop's fable
"The ass and Jupiter" and appears as such in the verse paraphrase of John Ogilby; in the prose collections of Samuel Croxall and Thomas Bewick; and the
The_Ass_and_his_Masters
sufficient silver coins, it served as the chief medium of exchange. John Ogilby wrote in his 1670 book America: Being an Accurate Description of the
History of slavery in Maryland
History_of_slavery_in_Maryland
Former street in the City of London
became corrupted into Bull and Mouth. The street was first recorded on John Ogilby and William Morgan's Large Scale Map of the City As Rebuilt By 1676.
Bull_and_Mouth_Street
Street in South Dublin city
from 1580 until the 18th century. In 1637, perhaps as early as 1634. John Ogilby (at the time, Master of the Revels for Ireland and member of the household
Werburgh_Street
Irish-born soldier
Sir David Ogilby (?1755-1834) was an Irish-born officer in the East India Company's Madras Army who was knighted for his service in the Anglo-Mysore Wars
David Ogilby (East India Company officer)
David_Ogilby_(East_India_Company_officer)
Stream in North Carolina, USA
to encompass the nearby river and inlet. The river name appears on a John Ogilby map from 1671, making Lockwood's Folly River one of the oldest named
Lockwood_Folly_River
Calendar year
practices of surveying, as well as resulting in the modern definition by John Ogilby of the statute mile, as 1,760 yards. September 4 – Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
1666
English cartographer (died 1690)
Towns disused, and others new made". Following an extensive survey, John Ogilby published in 1675 the first detailed strip-maps showing the country's
John_Adams_(cartographer)
Stream in Westmorland and Furness, England
appeared on maps published by Jan Janssonius of Amsterdam in 1646 and John Ogilby of London in 1675. Rydal Hall was built on its present site, next to
Rydal_Beck
Play by James Shirley
Aesop by John Ogilby, with whom he'd worked at the Werburgh Street Theatre in the later 1630s. Shirley wrote commendatory verses for Ogilby's volume. In
Cupid_and_Death
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