Earlier this calendar week Layers of London, a website dedicated to visualizing London's history, added a novel vintage map layer to their interactive maps. The novel layer allows you lot to explore Layers of London's historical events on overstep of John Ogilby together with William Morgan's 1676 map of London.
Ogilby together with Morgan's map was created later the Great Fire of London inward 1666. The map was originally intended to assistance inward the planning out of province inward the City later the fire. It is believed to last the root map to exhibit every edifice inward London inward conception (rather than through an oblique bird's middle pictorial view).
The screenshot inward a higher house shows the conception of the novel St. Paul's Cathedral. The quondam cathedral had been destroyed inward the Great Fire of London. Work on the novel cathedral had begun inward the 1670's (when this map was surveyed) but was non completed until 1711. Ogilby & Morgan's map hence presumably uses Sir Christopher Wren's ain plans to exhibit where the completed cathedral would shortly stand.
You tin can sentiment some other online interactive application of Ogilby together with Morgan's map on the British History Online website.
Ogilby & Morgan's map of London was published i calendar month later Ogilby's expiry inward 1676. As a cartographer Ogilby is in all likelihood meliorate known for his Britannia Atlas. This atlas of roads inward England & Wales is presented inward a serial of scrolls. Each scroll includes simply i journey, shown every bit a strip map, from i British town to another. The Britannia Atlas includes 85 routes together with provides a require to navigating over 7,500 miles of road. The Britannia was hence Britain's root proper route atlas. In the 1670's the finished atlas toll £5 to buy, or the equivalent of around £700 inward today's money.
Late inward his life Ogilby was appointed 'Cosmographer together with Geographic Printer' to Charles II. However cartography was entirely a pocket-size business office of Ogilby's life. During his relatively long life he had every bit good been a trip the calorie-free fantastic teacher, a tailor a translator of Virgil, a publisher, together with the founder of the root house inward Dublin. He made a lot of coin from his translations of Virgil but, if John Dryden is to last believed, Ogilby was in all likelihood a meliorate cartographer than he was a translator. Dryden claimed that Ogilby's run was entirely practiced plenty to last used for can newspaper or wrapping pies ('martyrs of pies, together with relics of the bum'). I assume Dryden was unimpressed amongst Ogilby's translations of Latin. I can't believe Dryden would wipe his arse amongst Ogilby together with Morgan's superb map of London.
