John Ogilby – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:42:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg John Ogilby – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Ogilby’s Britannia https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/03/ogilbys-britannia/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:42:12 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785123 More]]>
John Ogilby, The Road From London to the Lands End, 1675.

Something I missed when I posted about Alan Ereira’s biography of 17th-century cartographer John Ogilby: scans of all 100 plates of his 1675 atlas, Britannia—considered the first road atlas of Great Britain—are available online at this site. [Tom Harper]

Previously: New Biography of 17th-Century Cartographer John Ogilby.

]]> 1785123 New Biography of 17th-Century Cartographer John Ogilby https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/12/new-biography-of-17th-century-cartographer-john-ogilby/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 15:46:19 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3592 More]]> John Ogilby, The Road From London to the Lands End,, 1675.
John Ogilby, The Road From London to the Lands End, 1675.

nine-lives-ogilbyJohn Ogilby, the Scottish cartographer who in 1675 published the Britannia atlas—essentially the first road atlas of Great Britain—is the subject of a new biography by Alan Ereira. The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain’s Master Mapmaker and His Secrets came out last month from Duckworth Overlook. (Direct Amazon UK link, though it’s available from third-party sellers on other stores.) From the description I gather it will follow the argument made in the 2008 BBC series Terry Jones’ Great Map Mystery, which Ereira wrote and directed: that the Britannia was an invasion map designed to facilitate a Catholic takeover. (My understanding of this is third-hand: I haven’t seen the book or the series.) [WMS]

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