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John Ogilby

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Scottish academic, translator, theatrical impresario and cartographer (1600-1676)

WritersLived 1600 to 1676 · aged 75
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John Ogilby, Ogelby, or Oglivie was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, though neither overtly acknowledged this.

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Detail from Ogilby and Morgan's "most accurate Survey of the City of London and Libertyes therof"Detail from Ogilby and Morgan's "most accurate Survey of the City of London and Libertyes therof"A surveyor's wheel in use (detail from the frontispiece of Britannia)A surveyor's wheel in use (detail from the frontispiece of Britannia)

Writers born in the 1600s 6

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John Ogilby, Ogelby, or Oglivie was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, though neither overtly acknowledged this. Ogilby's most-noted works include translations of the works of Virgil and Homer, and his version of the Fables of Aesop.

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Lived 1600 to 1676 · aged 75
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