biography
pronunciation:
[ohgilbee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1600–76)
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| biography:
| Topographer, printer, and map-maker, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. A dancing teacher and theatre owner, he lost everything in the Civil War, but after the Restoration obtained court recognition and became a London publisher. The great fire of 1666 destroyed his stock but got him the job of surveying the gutted sites in the city. He established a thriving printing house and was appointed ‘king's cosmographer and geographic printer’. His most important publications were engravings of maps and atlases, including Africa (1670), America (1671), and Asia (1673), and a road atlas of Britain (1675), unfinished at his death. |
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