The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain's Master Mapmaker and His Secrets by Alan Ereira

The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain's Master Mapmaker and His Secrets

Alan Ereira

304 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

biography informative inspiring slow-paced
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Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was to teach them. By the 1670s, he was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured draw...

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