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    John Ogilby (also Ogelby, 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    na't leven in Sina getekent. The English translation, published by John Ogilby in 1669, was titled: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United...
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    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...
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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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    October 4 – Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1681) November – John Ogilby, English writer and cartographer (d. 1676) November 15 – Aniello Falcone...
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    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...
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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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  • 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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  • William Ogilby FRAS FLS FZS FGS MRIA (1805–1873) was an Irish-born zoologist who was at the forefront of classification and naming of animal species in...
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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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    "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...
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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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    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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    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...
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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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    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...
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