The Nine Lives Of John Ogilby

Author : Alan Ereira
Publisher : Duckworth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0715652265

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The Nine Lives of John Ogilby by Alan Ereira Pdf

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 drawings that placed roads on maps for the first time. During the intervening years, Ogilby had travelled through fire and plague, war and shipwreck; had been an impresario in Dublin, a poet in London, a soldier and sea captain, as well as a secret agent, publisher and scientific geographer. The world of his youth had been blown up and turned upside down. Beset by danger, he carefully concealed his biography in codes and cyphers, which meant that the truth about his life has remained unknown... until today. In this enlightening book, Alan Ereira brings a fascinating hidden history to light, and reveals that Ogilby's celebrated Britannia is far more than a harmless road atlas: it is, rather, filled with secrets designed to serve a conspiracy of kings and England’s undoing. The Nine Lives of John Ogilby is the story of a remarkable man, and of a covert journey which gave birth to the modern world.

Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198846239

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England by Adam Smyth Pdf

"How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--

Author : Paul Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000457681

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Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics by Paul Hughes Pdf

This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kings’, Charles II and James II, promotion of cartography for both strategy and trade. It is aimed at the academic, cartographic and larger market of marine enthusiasts. Through shipwreck and Arctic marooning, and Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian running through Charles’s capital. After John Ogilby’s successful Britannia, Charles set Collins surveying his kingdom’s coasts, and James set John Adair surveying in Scotland. They triangulated at sea. Subsequently, Collins persuaded James to sustain his dead brother’s ambition. This, the British coast’s first survey took six years. After James’s flight, and William III’s invasion, Collins lead the royal yacht squadron for six years more, garnering funds to publish Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot. The Admiralty and civic institutions subsidised what became his own pilot. Collins aided Royal Society members in their investigations, and his new guide remained vital to navigators through the century following. Charles’s cartographic promotion bloomed the most spectacularly in the atlases of Ogilby, Collins and John Flamsteed for roads, harbours, and stars.

Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300254174

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Scotland by Murray Pittock Pdf

An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony of England nor a fully equal partner in the British union, Scotland's history has often been seen as simply a component part of British history. But the story of Scotland is one of innovation, exploration, resistance--and global consequence. In this wide-ranging, deeply researched account, Murray Pittock examines the place of Scotland in the world. Pittock explores Scotland and Empire, the rise of nationalism, and the pressures on the country from an increasingly monolithic understanding of "Britishness." From the Thirty Years' War to Jacobite risings and today's ongoing independence debates, Scotland and its diaspora have undergone profound changes. This ground-breaking account reveals the diversity of Scotland's history and shows how, after the country disappeared from the map as an independent state, it continued to build a global brand.

Author : Steve Hindle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192694737

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The Social Topography of a Rural Community by Steve Hindle Pdf

The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed estate maps, account books, private journals, and hundreds of deeds and wills, and employing a novel micro-spatial methodology, it reconstructs the life experience of some 780 inhabitants spread across 176 households. This offers a unique opportunity to visualize members of an English rural community as they responded to, and in turn initiated, changes in social and economic activity, making their own history on their own terms. In so doing the book brings to the fore the social, economic, and spatial lives of people who have been marginalized from conventional historical discourse, and offers an unusual level of detail relating to the spatial and demographic details of local life. Each of the substantive chapters focuses on the contributions and experiences of a particular household in the parish-the mill, the vicarage, the alehouse, the blacksmith's forge, the hovels of the labourers and coalminers, the cottages of the nail-smiths and ribbon-weavers, the farms of the yeomen and craftsmen, and the manor house of Arbury Hall itself-locating them precisely on specific sites in the landscape and the built environment; and sketching the evolving 'taskscapes' in which the inhabitants dwelled. A novel contribution to spatial history, as well as early modern material, social and economic history more generally, this study represents a highly original analysis of the significance of place, space, and flow in the history of English rural communities.

Author : Darrelyn Gunzburg,Bernadette Brady
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350079908

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Space, Place and Religious Landscapes by Darrelyn Gunzburg,Bernadette Brady Pdf

Exploring sacred mountains around the world, this book examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic to the mountain, constructed by people, or a mutual encounter. Chapters explore mountains in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Ireland, the Himalaya, Japan, Greece, USA, Asia and South America, and embrace the union of sky, landscape and people to examine the religious dynamics between human and non-human entities. This book takes as its starting point the fact that mountains physically mediate between land and sky and act as metaphors for bridges from one realm to another, recognising that mountains are relational and that landscapes form personal and group cosmologies. The book fuses ideas of space, place and material religion with cultural environmentalism and takes an interconnected approach to material religio-landscapes. In this way it fills the gap between lived religious traditions, personal reflection, phenomenology, historical context, environmental philosophy, myths and performativity. In defining material religion as active engagement with mountain-forming and humanshaping landscapes, the research and ideas presented here provide theories that are widely applicable to other forms of material religion.

Author : Jennifer Thorp
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781638040965

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The Gentleman Dancing-Master by Jennifer Thorp Pdf

The Gentleman Dancing-Master: Mr Isaac and the English Royal Court from Charles II to Queen Anne considers the life and times of the dancer known as Mr Isaac, performer, teacher and creator of prestigious dances for performance at the royal court. Includes facsimiles and discussion of his surviving dances and their context.

Author : Marco Caboara
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004530904

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Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735 by Marco Caboara Pdf

This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues and publication dates.

Author : Andrew Ure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Factory system
ISBN : UOM:39015008164140

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The Philosophy of Manufactures by Andrew Ure Pdf

Author : Martin Butler,Jane Rickard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108842686

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Ben Jonson and Posterity by Martin Butler,Jane Rickard Pdf

Explores the construction of Jonson's multifaceted reputation and shifting legacy from his own time to the present.

Author : Harold M. Weber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813184883

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Paper Bullets by Harold M. Weber Pdf

The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.

Author : James Charles Roy
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526770738

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The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland by James Charles Roy Pdf

Queen Elizabeth’s bloody rule over Ireland is examined in this “richly-textured, impressively researched and powerfully involving” history (Roy Foster, author of Modern Ireland, 1600–1972). England’s violent subjugation of Ireland in the sixteenth century under Queen Elizabeth I was one of the most consequential chapters in the long, tumultuous relationship between the two countries. In this engaging and scholarly history, James C. Roy tells the story of revolt, suppression, atrocities, and genocide in the first colonial “failed state”. At the time, Ireland was viewed as a peripheral theater, a haven for Catholic heretics, and a potential “back door” for foreign invasions. Tormented by such fears, lord deputies sent by the queen reacted with an iron hand. These men and their subordinates—including great writers such as Edmund spencer and Walter Raleigh—would gather in salons to pore over the “Irish Question”. But such deliberations were rewarded by no final triumph, only debilitating warfare that stretched across Elizabeth’s long rule.

Author : John Aubrey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1015872840

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Brief Lives: Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 & 1696 by John Aubrey Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John Dryden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1019523425

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The Preface to the Fables by John Dryden Pdf

An influential literary essay by the English poet and playwright John Dryden, discussing the art of translation and his own approach to adapting Aesop's Fables into English verse. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1751
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000352769

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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. in Nine Volumes Complete by Alexander Pope Pdf