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  John Ogilby
Ogilby was born outside Dundee, in 1600, the son of a well-to-do Scottish gentleman.
Ogilby was assisted in the project by his step-grandson, William Morgan, and by a number of professional surveyors.
Unfortunately, Ogilby's business rivals were also quick to appreciate his work, and his information was quickly pirated by his contemporaries, who inserted the roads to up-date their maps of the individual counties.
www.mapforum.com /01/ogilby.htm   (2273 words)

  
  Cephalophus ogilbyi - Ogilby's duiker
Although Ogilby's duiker may compete with the nocturnal bay duiker, the effects of this competition may be mediated by temporal separation (Kingdon, 1997; Newing, 2001).
One Ogilby's duiker's stomach contents examined by Newing (2001) was composed of 92% fruits and seeds, 7% vegetative parts, and 1% flowers.
Kingdon (1997) suggests that the distribution of Ogilby's duiker may be influenced by the super-abundance of fibrous fruits and the abundance of primates which contribute to fruit fall.
www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Cephalophus_ogilbyi.html   (1490 words)

  
  John Ogilby - LoveToKnow 1911
JOHN OGILBY (1600-1676), British writer, was born in or near Edinburgh in November 1600.
The success of this attempt encouraged Ogilby to learn Greek from David Whitford, who was usher in the school kept by James Shirley the dramatist.
His property was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, but he rebuilt his house in Whitefriars, and set up a printing press, from which he issued many magnificent books, the most important of which were a series of atlases, with engravings and maps by Hollar and others.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Ogilby   (308 words)

  
 ISDRA Ogilby Sand Dune Guide
Ogilby GPS Coordinates - 32° 48.68 N / 114° 53.23 W
Ogilby is surrounded by small dunes to the west, with access to Patton Valley a few miles through these small dunes.
Ogilby tends to be a more family oriented, quiet camp area.
www.duneguide.com /sand_dune_guide_isdra_ogilby.htm   (198 words)

  
 All about John Ogilby
John Ogilby was born in Kellemeune, ten miles north of Dundee in 1600.
John Ogilby, now in his seventies, was to start the most original and ambitious achievement of his career.
John Ogilby was not to see the further developments of his survey, however, for on 4th September, 1676 he died and was buried at St. Brides, one of Sir Christopher Wren's new churches.
www.antiquemaps.com /uk/roads/ogilhist.htm   (1261 words)

  
 Vail Daily News for Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado - News
Ogilby, who built the Shrine Mountain Inn above Vail Pass and the Apollo Park Lodge in town, remembers when Interstate 70 was first built and animals would congregate in his yard, dazed and confused about how to continue their semi-annual migration.
Ogilby says he'll be particularly disappointed, though, if he's not able to at least vote on whether the town should form an Urban Renewal Authority, which in turn, perhaps, could fund much of the redevelopment of Lionshead through an aggressive, controversial method called tax incremental financing, or TIF.
Ogilby, in fact, was a member of the Donovan Park Task Force with the wife of the man for whom the park was named, John Donovan.
www.vaildaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031016/NEWS/310160103   (1521 words)

  
 Bibles Catalogue Number 1
Ogilby illustrated most copies of his Bible, however, with cuts bought from the Amsterdam publisher, Nicolaes Visscher (see catalogue no. 7).
Ogilby’s ventures were successful in winning him royal favour, and, after the disaster of the Great Fire, he received a licence as a cosmographer and geographic printer, and embarked on the work of surveying Great Britain.
It was not a financial success, however, and Ogilby failed in his attempt, in 1661, to have the publication of other illustrated Bibles prohibited for ten years.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /gatt/bible/catalog.asp?CN=1&H=yes   (716 words)

  
 UW Libraries - Preservation Save A Book II America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ogilby did add material in his edition from other sources on the English colonies in America and added maps of Maryland, Jamaica, and Barbados.
Ogilby, however, was not alone in his plagiarism.
John Ogilby (1600-1676) is described by the Dictionary of National Biography as a "miscellaneous writer" of a good family.
www.lib.washington.edu /preservation/saveabook2.html   (232 words)

  
 John Ogilby
The success of this attempt encouraged Ogilby to learn Greek from David Whitford, who was usher in the school kept by James Shirley the dramatist.
His property was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, but he rebuilt his house in Whitefriars, and set up a printing press, from which he issued many magnificent books, the most important of which were a series of atlases, with engravings and maps by Wenzel Hollar and others.
Ogilby also translated the fables of Aesop, and wrote three epic poems.
www.nndb.com /people/046/000102737   (308 words)

  
 Ogilby Trust - About Us
The Army Museums Ogilby Trust is a registered charity founded in 1954 by the late Colonel Robert Ogilby DSO, DL whose personal experiences in two world wars persuaded him that the fighting spirit of the British soldier stemmed from the esprit de corps engendered by the Army’s regimental structure.
This spirit is enshrined in the many regimental and corps museums which seek to inspire and educate their visitors.
The care and management of such collections is a heavy responsibility which demands specialist knowledge, professional training and funding.
www.armymuseums.org.uk /trust.htm   (402 words)

  
 Dabul, from John Ogilby's Asia, the first part, being an accurate description of Persia, the vast empire of the great ...
Egraving by John Ogilby (fl.1673) of Dabhol in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, dated 1673.
It was the principal port in the southern Konkan, carrying on trade with Cambay, Malabar, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and was the capital of a province of the Bijapur kingdom under Yusuf Adil Shah. John Ogilby was 'Cosmographer, Geographic Printer, and Master of His Majesty's revels in the Kingdom of Ireland' to Charles II.
Ogilby's description of Dhabol reads, "Four Gau, or twelve Leagues from Chipolone, down the River Helewacko, lies the City Dabul, or Dabrul, anciently very famous, but of late much ruin'd by the Wars, and decreas'd in Trade...It lies open onely on the South-side which fronts the Water, where are two Batteries planted with four Iron Guns.
www.collectbritain.co.uk /personalisation/object.cfm?uid=019PZZ000000459U00000000   (345 words)

  
 Ogilby's Road Maps in Hampshire, 1675
Ogilby's maps were reproduced, sometimes amended, by several publishers in the early-mid 18th century; Gardner 1719, Senex 1719, and Bowen 1720, onwards.
Ogilby issued sets of 'Queries' to provide some standard approach to the data gathering for his county mapping.
Morden's map of 1695 uses the Ogilby roads and is an early county map of Hampshire with roads.
www.geog.port.ac.uk /webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/ogilby/ogilby1.htm   (1244 words)

  
 Ogilby - California Ghost Town
The town of Ogilby is now a ghost town.
Ogilby had been a small town of workers for the American Girl Mine and a loading area for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
All that remains of Ogilby is the foundation of the school house and the cemetery.
www.ghosttowns.com /states/ca/ogilby.html   (191 words)

  
 Technology: Portal, plain and simple
Ogilby, who had avoided computers because of his "advanced technophobia," agreed to help her.
In his office, Ogilby has pins in a U.S. map to show where libraries, universities and others have linked to the Big Eye, as well as pins showing Internet service providers that are using his brochures to sell service and to encourage use of the Big Eye as a start page for surfers.
Ogilby had retired to Sarasota in 1986, after a career that ranged from sales to operating a real estate office in Columbus, Ohio.
www.sptimes.com /News/71299/news_pf/Technology/Portal__plain_and_sim.shtml   (1196 words)

  
 .: Albany Democrat-Herald :. Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Clem Ogilby, who lives just across the road from Hotchkiss said development of the property would be harmful to the rural, scenic nature of the area.
The Board of Commissioners did not realize that Ogilby wished to testify on the Hotchkiss application until after it had voted unanimously to approve the claim.
Ogilby doesn't think it is constitutional for property owners to be granted different rights based on when land was purchased.
www.dhonline.com /articles/2005/03/31/news/local/news02.txt   (424 words)

  
 History of All Saints Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ogilby, then Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary in New York, laid the foundation of the house and raised its walls, and finished its roof.
But here death came in and stopped the work, and the place seemed likely to fall into ruins; for though windows were promised and a font provided, there were not any found willing to supply the means necessary to finish the edifice.
Frederick Ogilby, Dr. John Ogilby's brother and a member of the staff of Trinity Wall Street, preached the first sermon.
www.allsaintsbriarcliff.org /heritage.html   (976 words)

  
 Online Catalogue - Ogilby/Gardner
This map was prepared by John Ogilby (1600-1676), a Scotsman and a Royal Cosmographer (1671)., It was from the first book of road maps, entitled Britannia, 1675.
The larger version was originally prepared by John Ogilby (1600-1676), a Scotsman and Royal Cosmographer (1671).
Ogilby maps are unique, with their ribbons tracing the road system between towns.
www.lombardmaps.com /cat/ogilby/ogilby.htm   (229 words)

  
 John Ogilby Biography
John Ogilby (1600-1676) was a British writer and cartographer.
He was born in or near Edinburgh in November 1600.
His property was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, but he rebuilt his house in Whitefriars, and set up a printing press, from which he issued many magnificent books, the most important of which were a series of atlases, with engravings and maps by Hollar and others.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Ogilby_John.html   (273 words)

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